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> OK - my current best theory is that if the Standard boot manager > is faced with anything other than exactly 1 bootable slice (partition > to it), it defaults to "Invalid partition table." I'll bet anyone > lunch that this is true. Any takers? I've read before: the standard bootloader looks for the first freebsd slice, and runs it. If there's no bsdlabel partition 'a' then it will have trouble booting. I haven't followed this thread in detail. I briefly saw you had 3 slices defined, is by chance the first slice a <non>system disk? > I'll test my theory tonight and let you all know how it turns out. > If this is true, then we should at least post some warnings, if not > actually fix the installation process so that if you choose "Standard," > it helps ensure that you have one and only one bootable slice/partition! > > Whaddaya think? > > Well, better it happen to me than someone from another community who is > trying us out for the first time... > -- > > John Lind > j...@starfire.mn.org > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"