Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 11:08:58 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD problem: $50 reward. Message-ID: <20020702013858.GE25434@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <000401c22167$4c8e0880$6401a8c0@LUCKYVAIO> References: <000401c22167$4c8e0880$6401a8c0@LUCKYVAIO>
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[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
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