On Sun, 10 Aug 2003, Darren Pilgrim wrote: > On 2003-08-10, at 15:29:32, Doug White <dwhite_at_gumbysoft.com> wrote: > > >On Sat, 9 Aug 2003, Darren Pilgrim wrote: > > > >> I'm trying to get 5.1-R installed, but I've run into a problem I don't > >> understand. The disk layout I want should look like this: > >> > >> s1: 20gb, FreeBSD > >> s2: 10gb, Windows > >> s3: ~83gb (the rest of the disk), data > > > >with what tool are you creating s2 and s3? It sounds like the last thing > >that touches it is not creating a proper partition table and your BIOS is > >unhappy. > > Sysinstall, as part of the installation process. Hm. sysinstall is famously bad at making slice tables. The usual solution is to make the Windows partitions first using DOS FDISK on a zeroed disk -- it can usually get the geometry right. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite_at_gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.orgReceived on Sun Aug 10 2003 - 22:41:57 UTC
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