Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 13:35:33 -0500 From: Peter Radcliffe <pir@pir.net> To: D J Hawkey Jr <hawkeyd@visi.com> Cc: mobile at FreeBSD <freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Dell S2D partition woes Message-ID: <20040205183533.GF26606@pir.net> In-Reply-To: <20040205182315.GA4243@sheol.localdomain> References: <20040205182315.GA4243@sheol.localdomain>
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D J Hawkey Jr <hawkeyd@visi.com> probably said: > So, two questions: Is my assumption correct, that the BIOS wants S2D on > slice #1, and if so, can I make the existing disk labels "jibe" with the > changed FBSD slice? I'm assuming that simply editing /etc/fstab before > rebooting with the new slice table won't cut it. All the laptop save to disk BIOS stuff I have experience with is phoenix bios, I set them up with phdisk.exe from DOS. These have always had to be fdisk partition #4. Always. IBM laptops, Sony laptops, they've all been the same. On many (all ?) of the laptops I've set this up on the suspend to disk partition has hat to be inside the first 8Gb of disk, I've usually installed windows for dual boot in the first 6Gb or so, then suspend partition, then FreeBSD. P. -- pir
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