[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Adrian Wontroba wrote: >> The point has been made before in this thread, but you need to change >> the way the NEW machine accesses the drive FROM LBA to CHS BEFORE you >> install. >> >> Your new system supports LBA. The old one doesn't, and its view of the >> disk is very different. You must ensure that the disk "looks right" >> before installation. >> >> CHS addressing started to be a problem as soon as disks stopped actually >> having a fixed number of sectors per track. IDE drives circumvented it >> by lying to the BIOS about what they looked like. If you are really >> unlucky, you will have to choose a compatible pair of lies. >> > > So I've tried disabling LBA mode for that HDD, but the results are the > same: "missing operating system"
Did you also reinstall after that? -- Sten Daniel Sørsdal _______________________________________________ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
