"Invalid partition table" error when creating more than one slice during install?

[Doug White]

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.

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