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

[Darren Pilgrim]

On 2003-08-10, at 15:29:32, Doug White <dwhite at 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.