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I think I just mangled my partition table
I'm trying to install FBSD 7.2 on my laptop, which at this moment now only boots XPPro. Dealing with a 250gb hd; which has only one important partition - 30gbs for Windows. Everything else can be safely wiped.
When I was installing, I went ahead and deleted the other partitions, and then set up for my FreeBSD partition. That gave me a setup resembling: 30gb - windows 40gb - fat (unformatted for moving files between windows and bsd) 120gb - freebsd 60gb - unallocated I then proceeded to slice up the 120gb partition for installing FBSD. Installation seemed to go fine, until I rebooted to actually start the OS. My system now takes a very long time to start the boot selection process. I loaded the FBSD bootloader into the MBR, which sees "Windows" "DOS" and "FreeBSD". Windows works fine in option 1, the second would attempt to boot an unallocated, unformatted partition (so I don't use it), the third is freebsd of course. When I select FreeBSD the boot process starts normally until it gets to the point of trying to mount the volumes. It identifies the HD and the optical; but then it panics when it tries to mount. It asks me to specify a type and slice for mounting, and when I try the one I thought was / on the FBSD partition it panics and reboots. Is it worthwhile to try to fix the partition tables in FBSD setup, or should I just reinstall? |
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30g windows, 6g / and /tmp, 120 g /usr and /var, 120 fat32?
....might boot (not sure) The hard part, setting up the 2 "6g 120g" . I've always been aided by "freebsd fdisk (to paraphrase) " with a shareware boot manager BEFORE sysinstall (which may be arcane for that use unless one is practiced.) ... Others might know another way(s) or reason(s)
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I'm inclined to try a different order to the partitions this time:
30g : windows (ntfs) 120g : freebsd (sliced up nicely later) 60g : files to go between OSes (fat32) 4g : windows swap (ntfs) In case the non-bootable partition in the middle was mucking things up (though I thought I was set up that way before without incident). |
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