From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 13 21:42: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fbsd01.granitepost.com (fbsd01.granitepost.com [209.150.104.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 780CE37B40C for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 21:41:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from clabrown@granitepost.com) Received: from sager (austin.granitepost.com [209.150.104.143]) by fbsd01.granitepost.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id CAA16390 for ; Tue, 14 Aug 2001 02:32:35 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: From: "Clarence Brown" To: Subject: RE: Old PC + Big IDE HD = Booting? Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 00:52:08 -0500 Message-ID: <000d01c12485$41963d60$8f6896d1@granitepost.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 CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <3B77B052.8090003@sigtrap.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 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 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Edvard > Fagerholm > Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 5:48 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 > it. Its old HD was broken, so I had to fire it up with a 40GB Quantum > Fireball disk. > > Now the only way to boot that computer was to disable that > drive in the > BIOS, and then continue normally with the FreeBSD installation as it > doesn't care what the BIOS has to say about the drives > connected to the > system. > > Anyways installation was succesfull and I'm able to boot that > drive from > a newer computer. I got that HD to the boot loader too from > the old PC > by manually configuring it to look like a 8GB drive. However > when I see > the boot prompt and try pressing F1 the computer beeps once and then > completely freezes. > > 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? > > Any suggestions on getting it to boot are welcome. > > Thanks > Edvard > You might try replacing the hard drive controller with an add-in drive controller that supports all the new standards. In the past I have had success adding large disks to older mother boards by doing this. Cla. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message