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From: Clint Olsen <clint@0lsen.net>
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On Jan 02, Doug White wrote:
> 
> Cylinder alignment.
> 
> FreeBSD's fdisk has always had a heck of a time getting disk geometry to
> jive with the BIOS.  The best way to avoid this sort of problem is to
> write the initial partition table with DOS FDISK by creating a dos
> partition that you delete in FreeBSD later.  Since DOS FDISK is using
> BIOS vectors to figure out geometry and such, it get it right as far as
> the BIOS is concerned and thats what matters to boot0.

Must it be a DOS partition?  This disk initially had XP on it, so a live
partition was already pleasant.  And fdisk still complained the first time
I tried the install.

-Clint