Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 00:41:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> To: Darren Pilgrim <dmp@bitfreak.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "Invalid partition table" error when creating more than one slice during install? Message-ID: <20030811004042.P72106@carver.gumbysoft.com> In-Reply-To: <20030810154821.1883a0ca.dmp@bitfreak.org> References: <20030809183834.3e196e1c.dmp@bitfreak.org> <20030810154821.1883a0ca.dmp@bitfreak.org>
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On Sun, 10 Aug 2003, Darren Pilgrim wrote: > On 2003-08-10, at 15:29:32, Doug White <dwhite@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@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org
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