From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 27 07:20:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA01147 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 27 Dec 1997 07:20:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from mailnfs0.tiac.net (mailnfs0.tiac.net [199.0.65.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA01137 for ; Sat, 27 Dec 1997 07:20:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scott@WireReady.com) Received: from scotttam ([206.105.157.218]) by mailnfs0.tiac.net (8.8.0/8.8) with SMTP id KAA16921 for ; Sat, 27 Dec 1997 10:20:32 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19971227092220.006872a4@pop.tiac.net> X-Sender: popscot2@pop.tiac.net (Unverified) X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Sat, 27 Dec 1997 09:22:20 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Scott Tamosunas Subject: Installation question and Partition Magic Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I recently did an install and everything worked fine except when I went to run Partition Magic 3.0, it gave me error #110, which basically says that the file tables don't match up to what is on the disk. The way I configured my computer is the following: Computer = Pentium 233 MMX C drive = 1.2 Gb the first 800 Mb were a dual booting Win95/NT partition the next 398Mb were used for FreeBsd the last 2Mb were going to be used with Partition Magic's Boot Manager D drive - 1Gb used all as an extended partition for Windows I never got the boot manager installed becasue of the above problem. After this happened, I perused the web site and found a few articles that made mention that the root partition needs to be withing the first 1024 cylindars on an IDE drive. Now, I know this was a limitation with older BIOS that could not recoginze past that without a drive overlay. But my question is, is this still true for FreeBSD even with a newer BIOS? If so, is that what the problem with Partition Magic was? Thank you very much!! Scott Tamosunas scott@WireReady.com