Hello! I installed FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE recently, on a hard drive that's split into one 26GB Windows partition, and one 12GB FreeBSD partition (yes, I know, it's really unfair, but I use the music program Logic from Emagic a lot, so I have to keep Windows...otherwise, it would be out the door...).
When I installed FreeBSD, the installation program complained that 77504/16/63 couldn't possibly be a correct geometry for the hard drive, a Western Digital WD400BB-75DEA0. I found another geometry, 5166/240/63, which I gave sysinstall, and it seemed to accept it. I don't know which one is correct. Possibly, that's the reason that my Windows partition has some trouble booting up. If I choose to boot the Windows partition, all I get is a lousy blinking cursor, and no response to input (no CTRL-ALT-DEL is accepted). I can wait forever, and then I have to pull out the power cord. Now, I want to reinstall FreeBSD and Windows altogether (after finding some way to back up my 10 GB of precious data). How should I go about it? Windows first, the FreeBSD? Which geometry should I use? /Fredrik, Stockholm _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"