Re: [ossig] Problem installing FreeBSD

[Tze-Meng Tan <tmtan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry, never encountered this before...perhaps it has to do with having 
too many disk partitions

Tan Tze-Meng	email: tmtan@opensos.net	tmtan@tm.net.my
Internet Consultant, OpenSOS Sdn Bhd
Apple Certified Technical Coordinator
Apple Product Professional
On Feb 13, 2004, at 6:58 PM, Lee Hanxue wrote:

> I have installed Mandrake 9.2. I wish to install FreeBSD 5.2.1 This is 
> the layout of my harddisk:
>
>             First    Last
>  # Type     Sector   Sector   Offset  Length   Filesystem Type (ID)   
> Flags
> -- ------- -------- --------- ------ --------- ---------------------- 
> ---------
>  1 Primary        0  4016249      63  4016250  Linux (83)      Boot 
> (80)
>  2 Primary  4016250 23760134       0 19743885  Extended (05)   None 
> (00)
>  5 Logical  4016250 20643524      63 16627275  Linux (83)      None 
> (00)
>  6 Logical 20643525 23085404      63  2441880  Linux (83)      None 
> (00)
>  7 Logical 23085405 23760134      63   674730  Linux swap (82) None 
> (00)
>  3 Primary 23760135 28659959       0  4899825  FreeBSD (A5)    None 
> (00)
>    Primary 28659960 78156224       0 49496265  Free Space      None 
> (00)
>
>
> I booted up using the FreeBSD installation disk, and proceed as usual. 
> The installation process got hung when FreeBSD is writing to the 3rd 
> primary partition (its own partition). I waited for more than 3 hours 
> without response.
>
> While using FreeBSD's fdisk, there was a message saying the 1st 
> Primary partition might not be aligned properly. Do you think this 
> might be the cause?
>
> I know nothing about the physical layout of a harddisk and all the 
> geometry stuff. Are there any alternatives for me?
>
> By the way, the FreeBSD bootloader got installed succesfully, giving 
> me an option to boot to (1) Linux or (3) FreeBSD. When I choose 
> FreeBSD, it complained that the kernel is not found. Choosing (1) will 
> load GRUB.
>
>
> Any clues? Thank you in advance!
>
>
> Stuck,
> Hanxue
>
>
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