[fgm]

hello, i'm trying to install FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE.. well the thing is, when im about to get into fdisk, it says my disk has a wrong geometry, so i set the one in the bios and its fine, but,
it doesnt recognize any of my partitions! i have one primary ntfs partition of 40gb, wich has win xp pro sp2, and an extended ntfs one of 14.5gb
my disk is a maxtor 60gb one, the space that's left was allocated to my linux partition, (i had slackware 10 installed on it), but i decided to delete it and try freebsd out..

i have tried everything from creating a FreeBSD (type A5) partition under linux's fdisk, and also tried using partition magic... but it hasnt worked... everytime i get the same geometry error, i feed it the correct values and then i see no partitions, just one large unused one...

what should i do?

[bmw]

Hi fgm, I feel your pain! :-) This aspect of PC architecture is very perplexing and vexing.

First, did you very carefully read this part of the online handbook ...

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps.html

(Note that what you call partitions are called "slices" in FreeBSD.)

See also:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/troubleshoot.html#BOOT-READ-ERROR

Good luck with it!

[fgm]

yeah i'm afraid i read all that but still got no answer :( this is a really weird problem..

i tried using my friends pc, and it also had the geometry error, but i fixed it and it showed all the partitions that system has already, two ntfs partitions.... so i thought something is wrong with my hard drive's partition table or something