Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 12:27:58 -0800 From: Clint Olsen <clint@0lsen.net> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installed 5.2RC from CDROM, fails to boot in manager Message-ID: <20040102202758.GH49032@0lsen.net> In-Reply-To: <20040102113152.V57649@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <20040101205511.GM42542@0lsen.net> <20040102001529.3B0AB5D04@ptavv.es.net> <20040102045848.GA49032@0lsen.net> <20040102113152.V57649@carver.gumbysoft.com>
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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. -Clint
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