From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 1 18:39:56 2002 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 D41EB37B405 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 18:39:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 488C343E0A for ; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 18:39:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 9F56381338; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 11:08:58 +0930 (CST) Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 11:08:58 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Lucky Green Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD problem: $50 reward. Message-ID: <20020702013858.GE25434@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <000401c22167$4c8e0880$6401a8c0@LUCKYVAIO> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000401c22167$4c8e0880$6401a8c0@LUCKYVAIO> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [dropping -hackers] On Monday, 1 July 2002 at 18:25:04 -0700, Lucky Green wrote: > Fifty bucks to the person that is first to help me solve this problem. > > I have a brand new Asus A7V333 motherboard with the latest BIOS version > 1007. I am trying to install FreeBSD 4.6 via floppies onto a brand new > Western Digital WD1200AB 120GB IDE drive. I have installed FreeBSD many > times before going back to FreeBSD 2.x. > > The partition editor and disklabel only see 8056MB of my 120GB drive. In > other words, I am being stopped by the 8.4GB barrier. Obviously, Asus' > new motherboard supports IDE drives larger than 8.4GB. Following some > suggestions, I wrote a slice and disklabels to the drive at 8.4GB. This > did not help. The drive is still only being recognized at 8.4GB. Check your BIOS settings. You want LBA. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message