Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 19:38:13 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> To: Clint Olsen <clint@0lsen.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installed 5.2RC from CDROM, fails to boot in manager Message-ID: <20040103193728.F69959@carver.gumbysoft.com> In-Reply-To: <20040102202758.GH49032@0lsen.net> References: <20040101205511.GM42542@0lsen.net> <20040102001529.3B0AB5D04@ptavv.es.net> <20040102113152.V57649@carver.gumbysoft.com> <20040102202758.GH49032@0lsen.net>
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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@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org
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