On Wed, June 15, 2005 10:51 pm, fbsd_user said:
> yea quite using PartitionMagic. instead use Freebsd
> fdisk to
> allocate partition for XP at front of disk and then
> install xp
> there. After that then install Freebsd in remaining
> freespace and
> select option to install boot manager. Don't
> 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.
Hi Bob, thank you for your note.
There is no FreeBSD related purpose to use
PartitionMagic. I
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
Hello,
I have some problems installing FreeBSD 5.4 on
ThinkPad X30.
I boot from floppy and install from a DOS partition.
The problem is somewhere around the drive geometry.
FreeBSD says that the geometry 77520/16/63 does not
seem right and that more likely 4864/255/63 will be
used. The manual s
