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Date:      Sat, 27 Dec 1997 23:33:07 -0800 (PST)
From:      Rudy Gireyev <rgireyev@yahoo.com>
To:        Scott Tamosunas <scott@WireReady.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Installation question and Partition Magic
Message-ID:  <19971228073307.3201.rocketmail@send1b.yahoomail.com>

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Why were you running Partition Magic after you have successfully
installed FreeBSD?

Did the error occur while you were starting Partition Magic from Win95
or after you started it and tried to do something to the FreeBSD
partition?

Rudy.


---Scott Tamosunas  wrote:
>
> 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
> 
> 
> 
> 

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