formatting disk for FreeBSD : Detecting IDE Primary Master ... [Press F4 to skip]

[Chris Whitehouse]

Nerius Landys wrote:
> 
> 
> The earler comment about the disk being too big might be the issue.  Update
> the motherboard's BIOS to the latest revision.  You may have to do some
> digging to find this for an old motherboard.  Tell us if that helps.
> _______________________________________________

Some motherboards had an upper limit on hard disk size which I think was
32gb. Some drives have a jumper to limit the apparent size to 32gb (if
that was the size).

Also I no longer have hardware to test this on but if it is a BIOS
problem I believe if you could put the hard disk in a newer machine for
the install it would then boot in the older machine as FreeBSD accesses
the disk directly, not through the BIOS.

Chris


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