Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 17:53:23 -0400 From: Bob Bomar <bob@ibsd.us> To: iavor.raytchev@verysmall.org Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ThinkPad X30 installation problem Message-ID: <20050615215323.GB27472@chaos.fxp.org> In-Reply-To: <20050615202430.98831.qmail@web52001.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20050615202430.98831.qmail@web52001.mail.yahoo.com>
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--rS8CxjVDS/+yyDmU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 09:24:30PM +0100, Iavor Raytchev wrote: > I repeated the installation around dozen times > installing FreeBSD on different places - before and > after Windows XP Pro, within the first 1024, etc. In > all cases the installation moves on successfully but > then PartitionMagic reports between 1 and 3 errors - > different LBA and CHS numbers somewhere, which it > insists on fixing by applying the LBA number. If I > allow PartitionMagic to fix them - the result is > always different. Sometimes everything is OK, > sometimes it says 'backup all data and reformat the > drive', which required full system reinstall (incl. > Windows) and in some cases first I had to delete the > FreeBSD partition with the DOS FDISK as PartitionMagic > refused to do anything and the IBM system recovery > refused to take off. >=20 > Could anybody tell me what am I doing wrong? Is it > wrong to use PartitionMagic in general after FreeBSD > is installed or is it something else? What is the purpose of using PartitionMagic after the install? Are you able to boot into FreeBSD and Windows? If so, then I fail to see the problem, if not, then what errors are you getting. --=20 Bob Bomar bob@ibsd.us ----------------------------- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org --rS8CxjVDS/+yyDmU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCsKNT9Jm/aTrtdKoRAuKnAJ9qDpan4x9/d7Qm3wymccfYe0BkoQCeMyZH mdJXiT4U/NDxnDGDrhnZOos= =LT9o -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --rS8CxjVDS/+yyDmU--
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