From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 13 21:21: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E9D337B409 for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 21:21:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f7E4Kwb29126; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 21:20:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Edvard Fagerholm" , Subject: RE: Old PC + Big IDE HD = Booting? Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 21:20:58 -0700 Message-ID: <000801c12478$84c0fc40$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <3B77B052.8090003@sigtrap.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal 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 About the only thing I know that will work reliably is to find some old IDE disk that's under 8GB and make it C: then put the 40GB drive as drive D: You might possibly get it to run with Disk Manager (or whatever passes for Disk Manager that they include with disk drives these days) I've seen it done once with FreeBSD. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Edvard >Fagerholm >Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 3:48 AM >To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Old PC + Big IDE HD = Booting? > > >Hi, >We have a old P133 sitting in our lab and I tried to install FreeBSD on > >Is there any way to get that thing up and running with a bigger disk >than 8GB? I tried booting it with grub too, but I'm not familiar with >it, anyways it crashed too after typing 'kernel /boot/loader' which is >why a think it's crashing in the loader not in grub or easyboot. So is >there any bootloader available that could scan the disks data for itself >and pass them to the loader? > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message