Re: New ISO available / ...

[Michel Talon <talon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Garance A Drosihn wrote:

> It might be that I messed up something there (or maybe GRUB did,
> when it was installed).  Perhaps the problem is that the BIOS is
> using a different calculation than fdisk on the system is using,
> and thus anything that usees the BIOS calls will end up reading
> from the wrong part of the disk for everything but the first slice.

This is certainly a possibility.
FreeBSD has always seen problems with disk geometry. It rarely sees
the same geometry as Linux or (Net|Open)BSD, causing problems on
multiboot machines. There appeared recently a rather nice review of 
FreeBSD on the Linux centric site kerneltrap.org, and they falled
immediately on this problem, that they call the "geometry bug".