Installed 5.2RC from CDROM, fails to boot in manager
Clint Olsen
clint at 0lsen.net
Fri Jan 2 12:28:11 PST 2004
On Jan 02, Doug White wrote:
>
> Cylinder alignment.
>
> FreeBSD's fdisk has always had a heck of a time getting disk geometry to
> jive with the BIOS. The best way to avoid this sort of problem is to
> write the initial partition table with DOS FDISK by creating a dos
> partition that you delete in FreeBSD later. Since DOS FDISK is using
> BIOS vectors to figure out geometry and such, it get it right as far as
> the BIOS is concerned and thats what matters to boot0.
Must it be a DOS partition? This disk initially had XP on it, so a live
partition was already pleasant. And fdisk still complained the first time
I tried the install.
-Clint
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