Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 09:19:50 +0000 From: beni <beni@brinckman.info> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: compunction@gmail.com Subject: Re: Dual Boot Vista - Large Sector Issue Message-ID: <200710070919.50664.beni@brinckman.info> In-Reply-To: <9f9a8c400710031757y5cd7c2ebq4b3530d2800a4c3c@mail.gmail.com> References: <9f9a8c400710031757y5cd7c2ebq4b3530d2800a4c3c@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thursday 04 October 2007 00:57:19 compunction wrote: > I am trying to install FreeBSD on the same drive as Vista in a dual boot > configuration. FDISK is reporting the normal geometry errors and it is > also stating that my Vista partition does not start on a sector boundary. > I chose to ignore these errors, but when I was creating the last slice on > the drive I got an error about not being able to create partition. I did > some research and I think the issue is related to the way Vista is creating > partitions. > > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923332 > http://www.multibooters.co.uk/partitions.html > > Does anyone know if/when fdisk will support this new partition layout? > > Thanks > Mark Maybe not the answer to your question, but these might help in dualbooting without too much problems : http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/EBCD/Linux http://apcmag.com/5046/how_to_dual_boot_vista_with_linux_vista_installed_first -- Beni.
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