Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 21:24:30 +0100 (BST) From: Iavor Raytchev <iavor_raytchev@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: ThinkPad X30 installation problem Message-ID: <20050615202430.98831.qmail@web52001.mail.yahoo.com>
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Hello, I have some problems installing FreeBSD 5.4 on ThinkPad X30. I boot from floppy and install from a DOS partition. The problem is somewhere around the drive geometry. FreeBSD says that the geometry 77520/16/63 does not seem right and that more likely 4864/255/63 will be used. The manual says I should use the BIOS geometry, but on X30 I could not find it anywhere in the BIOS. So I used the geometry which PartitionMagic reports and which I found also in one other article about installing FreeBSD on X30 - 5168/240/63. The install moves on and everything seems fine until I reboot in Windows XP Pro and start PartitionMagic. I repeated the installation around dozen times installing FreeBSD on different places - before and after Windows XP Pro, within the first 1024, etc. In all cases the installation moves on successfully but then PartitionMagic reports between 1 and 3 errors - different LBA and CHS numbers somewhere, which it insists on fixing by applying the LBA number. If I allow PartitionMagic to fix them - the result is always different. Sometimes everything is OK, sometimes it says 'backup all data and reformat the drive', which required full system reinstall (incl. Windows) and in some cases first I had to delete the FreeBSD partition with the DOS FDISK as PartitionMagic refused to do anything and the IBM system recovery refused to take off. Could anybody tell me what am I doing wrong? Is it wrong to use PartitionMagic in general after FreeBSD is installed or is it something else? Thanks, Iavor ___________________________________________________________ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://uk.photos.yahoo.com
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