From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 25 17:16:13 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B9AE10656A3 for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:16:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ryan.coleman@cwis.biz) Received: from qmta04.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta04.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.40]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 128BB8FC12 for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:16:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta08.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.12]) by qmta04.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id yghq1e00C0FhH24A4hGCEr; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:16:12 +0000 Received: from [10.0.1.9] ([70.89.202.1]) by omta08.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id yhFf1e00G02K3z28UhGBvT; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:16:12 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1081) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Ryan Coleman In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:16:11 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: To: Mubeesh ali X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1081) Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: chunk 'ad1s4 ; ad1s2 ,ad1s3 does not start on a track boundary : install issue X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:16:13 -0000 That would be your recovery partition from Acer, I would presume. On Aug 25, 2010, at 12:04 PM, Mubeesh ali wrote: > Hi , >=20 > I am trying to install freebsd on a acer 5745. I have allocated 50 gb > of free space and i select it for free bsd slice . but in the next > screen i get these error >=20 > chunk 'ad1s4 ;ad1s2 ,ad1s3 does not start on a track boundary and > free bsd defaults to using entire hardisk. the problem is there is > some sort of a 128 mb reserved partition in HDD (as shown from > windows) which i fear shouldnt be formatted (I used entire disk option > last time and system got stuck in bios splash ;had to send the lappy > for service after that; just got the laptop back :-)) >=20 >=20 > Please advise. >=20 >=20 > thanks, > Mubeesh > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to = "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"