I want to install freeBSD in my laptop.

I already had a Ubuntu at my system.

I make the partition of 40GB using GParted, to install freeBSD in to that.

But when I install freeBSD on the partition having 40GB , the error comes like "No root partition was found , the root FreeBSD partition must have a mountpoint of '/'".

can you suggest me how to solve this issue ?

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Using FreeBSD you need to create a slice; next create and format volumes in that slice.

For comparion look at this Linux and windows setup with:

• A MBR used for the partition table
• Two primary partions
• One extended partition.
• For volumes, one in partition 1, one in partition 2, two volume in the extended partition.

These volumes can be mounted, e.g with the help of drive letters, or under a folder of an NTFS filesystem.

----------------------------Disk------------------------
MBR | Partition 1 | partition 2 | partition 4 | | Volume 1 | volume 2 | volume 3 | volume 4 |

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Now consider FreeBSD, old style:

----------------------------Disk------------------------
MBR | slice | | Volume 1 | volume 2 | volume 3 | volume 4 |

The slice is almost the same as an [extended] partition. You need to create volumes in it and mount them.

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To make it a tad more complex, here is the FreeBSD setup which is currently commom and which uses the traditional PC setup.

----------------------------Disk-------------------------
MBR | Partition 1 | partition 2 | partition 4 | | Volume 1 | Slice 1 | vol 4 | vol 5 | vol2, vol 3, swap, 

As I read you post I wonder if you created free space by moving partitions, then created a slice for FreeBSD, but failed to create volume in that.

One of those volumes would have been mounted at /.

^{(Posted as a post since I see no way I could put all of this in a comment)}

But when I install freeBSD on the partition having 40GB , the error comes like "No root partition was found, the root FreeBSD partition must have a mountpoint of '/'".

The way I read the above, you've successfully installed FreeBSD, but, when you tried to reboot into it, you got the error.

Please, update your answer to confirm my assumption -- or provide more details -- and I'll update the answer.

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