Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 22:30:22 -0700 From: Darren Pilgrim <dmp@bitfreak.org> To: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "Invalid partition table" error when creating more than one slice during install? Message-ID: <20030811223022.21bfb3df.dmp@bitfreak.org> In-Reply-To: <20030811004042.P72106@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <20030809183834.3e196e1c.dmp@bitfreak.org> <20030810152906.B69012@carver.gumbysoft.com> <20030810154821.1883a0ca.dmp@bitfreak.org> <20030811004042.P72106@carver.gumbysoft.com>
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On 2003-08-11, at 00:41:57, Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> wrote: >On Sun, 10 Aug 2003, Darren Pilgrim wrote: > >> On 2003-08-10, at 15:29:32, Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> wrote: >> >> >On Sat, 9 Aug 2003, Darren Pilgrim wrote: >> > >> >> I'm trying to get 5.1-R installed, but I've run into a problem I don't >> >> understand. The disk layout I want should look like this: >> >> >> >> s1: 20gb, FreeBSD >> >> s2: 10gb, Windows >> >> s3: ~83gb (the rest of the disk), data >> > >> >with what tool are you creating s2 and s3? It sounds like the last thing >> >that touches it is not creating a proper partition table and your BIOS is >> >unhappy. >> >> Sysinstall, as part of the installation process. > >Hm. sysinstall is famously bad at making slice tables. The usual solution >is to make the Windows partitions first using DOS FDISK on a zeroed disk >-- it can usually get the geometry right. I used fdisk(8) from my existing 5.0 install and it worked great! It even dealt with my being lazy and not taking the time to calculate boundary-aligned sizes.
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