On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Clint Olsen wrote: > On Jan 02, Doug White wrote: > > > > Cylinder alignment. > > > > FreeBSD's fdisk has always had a heck of a time getting disk geometry to > > jive with the BIOS. The best way to avoid this sort of problem is to > > write the initial partition table with DOS FDISK by creating a dos > > partition that you delete in FreeBSD later. Since DOS FDISK is using > > BIOS vectors to figure out geometry and such, it get it right as far as > > the BIOS is concerned and thats what matters to boot0. > > Must it be a DOS partition? This disk initially had XP on it, so a live > partition was already pleasant. And fdisk still complained the first time > I tried the install. well its easiest to create dos parimary partitions from DOS FDISK :) -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite_at_gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.orgReceived on Sat Jan 03 2004 - 18:38:26 UTC
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