From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 29 16: 3:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.toronto.istar.net (mail1.toronto.istar.net [209.89.75.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B94037B621 for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2000 16:03:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from delerium@istar.ca) Received: from ip49.ottawa8.dialup.canada.psi.net ([154.5.70.49]) by mail1.toronto.istar.net with esmtp (Exim 2.02 #1) id 13Ife5-0007Jn-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 29 Jul 2000 19:03:54 -0400 User-Agent: Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition/5.02.2022 Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 19:03:20 -0400 Subject: Installing On dell inspiron & Win 2000 From: Mike Roth To: Message-ID: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/alternative; boundary="MS_Mac_OE_3047742200_46080_MIME_Part" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. --MS_Mac_OE_3047742200_46080_MIME_Part Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Hi I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.0 on a Dell Inspiron 5000 with Windows 2000 Professional and I'm having a bit of trouble. There is a 12 gig disk, with Win2000 using the first 8 gigs. I try to install FreeBSD and fdisk does not recognize the drive geometry. I've reset it to what is written on the drive label and proceed to partition and install. All goes will until I reboot. When I reboot I a) cannot boot FreeBSD when using BootEasy b) get a "Read Error" when I don't touch the boot sector and I have to reinstall everything What is even more anoying is if I reinstall Win2000 - without a reformat - it boots fine into Windows, however I can only boot off the live filesystem that comes with the CDs. When I do and I run fsck I get in correct super blocks on the root partition. Finally drive utilities from FreeBSD complain about incorrect "magic numbers" in the boot sector of the disk. If you have any answers or have done the like before please let me know. BTW - I am *not* subscribed to this list so if you could, please email me directly. My setup is: Dell Inspiron 5000 196 Megs Ram 12 Gig HD. Windows 2000 Pro. --MS_Mac_OE_3047742200_46080_MIME_Part Content-type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Installing On dell inspiron & Win 2000 Hi I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.0 on a Dell Inspiron 5000 with
Windows 2000 Professional and I'm having a bit of trouble.  There is &= nbsp;
a 12 gig disk, with Win2000 using the first 8 gigs.  I try to install =  
FreeBSD and fdisk does not recognize the drive geometry.  I've reset &= nbsp;
it to what is written on the drive label and proceed to partition
and install.  All goes will until I reboot.  When I reboot I
   a) cannot boot FreeBSD when using BootEasy
   b) get a "Read Error" when I don't touch the b= oot sector and  
I have to reinstall everything

What is even more anoying is if I reinstall Win2000 - without a
reformat - it boots fine into Windows, however I can only boot off
the live filesystem that comes with the CDs.  When I do and I run
fsck I get in correct super blocks on the root partition.

Finally drive utilities from FreeBSD complain about incorrect "magic &= nbsp;
numbers" in the boot sector of the disk.

If you have any answers or have done the like before please let me know.
BTW - I am *not* subscribed to this list so if you could, please
email me directly.

My setup is:
Dell Inspiron 5000
196 Megs Ram
12 Gig HD.
Windows 2000 Pro.
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