Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 19:43:30 +0200 From: "Fredrik =?iso-8859-1?Q?Carl=E9n?=" <baterista@arrhythmetic.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD installation smothered Windows Message-ID: <WorldClient-F200310231943.AA43300315@arrhythmetic.net>
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Hello! I installed FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE recently, on a hard drive that's split into one 26GB Windows partition, and one 12GB FreeBSD partition (yes, I know, it's really unfair, but I use the music program Logic from Emagic a lot, so I have to keep Windows...otherwise, it would be out the door...). When I installed FreeBSD, the installation program complained that 77504/16/63 couldn't possibly be a correct geometry for the hard drive, a Western Digital WD400BB-75DEA0. I found another geometry, 5166/240/63, which I gave sysinstall, and it seemed to accept it. I don't know which one is correct. Possibly, that's the reason that my Windows partition has some trouble booting up. If I choose to boot the Windows partition, all I get is a lousy blinking cursor, and no response to input (no CTRL-ALT-DEL is accepted). I can wait forever, and then I have to pull out the power cord. Now, I want to reinstall FreeBSD and Windows altogether (after finding some way to back up my 10 GB of precious data). How should I go about it? Windows first, the FreeBSD? Which geometry should I use? /Fredrik, Stockholm
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