On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, Randi Harper wrote:
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 11:56 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
[email protected] wrote:
Just as soon as FreeBSD 8.0 came out, I downloaded a boot-only disc
. . . . .
slicing/partitioning, recovery and backup tools, and also a loadable
Mini Windows XP. I hoped I would be able to find out what happened.
But guess what? Neither of the Boot CD tools were able to start up,
[...]
sysinstall asked something new when I installed 8.0, something like
"It is safe to use a disk geometry of 123/45/6789 on modern
computers... Would you like to use this disk geometry?", I chose
"Yes". Safe my ass. I guess my computer doesn't fit in sysinstall's
definition of "modern".
Reinstalling FreeBSD and chosing "No" seems to have revived the Windows
partition.
I'm not sure why I didn't see the original email in this thread -
maybe I saw the subject and figured it was a troll.
Seriously? FreeBSD anti-competitive activities? I suggest you wear
your tinfoil hat, because they are all out to get you.
It's a problem with sysinstall & libdisk. File a bug. That's generally
how problems are handled, not by claiming there's some sort of
anti-windows conspiracy.
How does it go? Attribute to incompetence, not malice? I forget. Don't
really mean to call you FreeBSD guys incompetent. Maybe just a little 300
Spartans fighting off a million Persians. Somebody made a boo boo-- oh
wait.. was it the guy trying to use sysinstall and not the folks who wrote
it? Either way..
-- randi
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