From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 25 22:05:37 2005 Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F060816A41C for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 22:05:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pobox@verysmall.org) Received: from thing.verysmall.org (thing.verysmall.org [212.100.226.116]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 59B3743D49 for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 22:05:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pobox@verysmall.org) Received: (qmail 32019 invoked by uid 89); 25 Jun 2005 22:23:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?127.0.0.1?) (iavor.raytchev@verysmall.org@80.109.105.131) by thing.verysmall.org with SMTP; 25 Jun 2005 22:23:17 -0000 Message-ID: <42BDD52B.70804@verysmall.org> Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 00:05:31 +0200 From: Iavor Raytchev <pobox@verysmall.org> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0+ (Windows/20050620) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: PartitionMagic question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions> List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 22:05:38 -0000 I am installing FreeBSD on a laptop with Windows XP Pro. I created empty space with PartitionMagic and installed FreeBSD there making the FreeBSD partition with the FreeBSD partition utility in the install. I took the drive geometry from PartitionMagic as the BIOS does not tell it (ThinkPad X30). The installation went well and both OS boot well. When I run PartitionMagic it reported 3 errors - different LBA and CHS values - the errors are on the first sector of the FreeBSD partitions and on the first sectors of the next two partitions (seeing from the LBA). PartitionMagic says in all 3 cases that the LBA and CHS values are different. In all 3 cases the CHS value is the same - 15483887 (drive geometry is 5168/240/63). After PartitionMagic repairs the errors everything is OK. Both OS boot well. My questions are - a) does somebody know why the errors appear? b) is the installation safe after the errors are fixed? PartitionMagic is listed officially as installation preparation utility and I assume it should be safe to use it afterwards, apart from touching the FreeBSD partition.