Re: "Invalid partition table" error when creating more than one slice during install?

From: Darren Pilgrim <dmp_at_bitfreak.org>
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 22:30:22 -0700
On 2003-08-11, at 00:41:57, Doug White <dwhite_at_gumbysoft.com> wrote:

>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.

I used fdisk(8) from my existing 5.0 install and it worked great!  It even dealt
with my being lazy and not taking the time to calculate boundary-aligned sizes.
Received on Mon Aug 11 2003 - 20:30:31 UTC

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