Re: Disk geom and freeBSD 6.2 on lenovoe T60 thinkpad laptop

On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:04:42 GMT,
Jason Bourne <j_bourne_treadstone@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Charlie Sorsby wrote:
Before the earlier attempt, I had used PartitionMagic to shrink the
Windows XP slice and make room for freeBSD.

Ughhh! Partition Magic is truly evil! It does non standard things. I quit
using it years ago.

Doesn't have to be partition magic that's at fault here. ISTR *windows*
putting in geometry info right behind the actual start of the slice, and
treating that as more authoritative than the table in the MBR.

The fix was to just dd over the first one or two sectors right behind
the one starting the slice.


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