From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 13 07:34:26 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC53F16A4CE for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 07:34:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from 82-41-27-158.cable.ubr04.edin.blueyonder.co.uk (82-41-27-158.cable.ubr04.edin.blueyonder.co.uk [82.41.27.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D29043D46 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 07:34:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrew@cream.org) Received: from cream.org (spatula.flat [192.168.0.2]) by myriad.flat (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B926C2; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 14:27:52 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <40041006.9010000@cream.org> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 15:34:30 +0000 From: Andrew Boothman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD User References: <20040113033814.GA15670@darkstar.blacksun.net.au> In-Reply-To: <20040113033814.GA15670@darkstar.blacksun.net.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cant boot from large disk X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 15:34:26 -0000 FreeBSD User wrote: > Howdy Questions, > > I am having problems with 4.8 Release booting from a large hard disk > (80 - 160G) on an old (socket7) motherboard. > > I have the same problem with linux. Making the root partition > smaller that 1000M, puting it on the first disk, etc etc doesnt > help in either case. I have also tried a few different bootloaders, > in all cases, the bootloader either failed to load, or failed to > boot the OS. > > With Linux (redhat7.x) I was able to build a bootable floppy on which > the location of the root partition was stored, and boot off that. > I could also interrupt the boot, enter different values, and boot > off of a different partition. Hardly ideal, but satisfactory. What bootloader did Redhat give you? Isn't it grub? I've used grub for ages to dual-boot Win2k and FreeBSD - it can boot FreeBSD no problem. My FreeBSD slice is at the start of my second drive so I type into grub: root (hd1,0,a) chainloader +1 boot And hey-presto FreeBSD boots no problem! There's possibly a way to get other bootloaders to boot FreeBSD, I'm not to sure. But you might want to give grub a try anyway. Good luck. Andrew