From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 5 11:25:55 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BD2C16A4CE for ; Thu, 5 Feb 2004 11:25:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from conn.mc.mpls.visi.com (conn.mc.mpls.visi.com [208.42.156.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F232243D31 for ; Thu, 5 Feb 2004 11:25:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hawkeyd@visi.com) Received: from sheol.localdomain (hawkeyd-fw.dsl.visi.com [208.42.101.193]) by conn.mc.mpls.visi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 942518C7F for ; Thu, 5 Feb 2004 12:51:06 -0600 (CST) Received: (from hawkeyd@localhost) by sheol.localdomain (8.11.6p2/8.11.6) id i15Ip6O04400 for freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org; Thu, 5 Feb 2004 12:51:06 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from hawkeyd) X-Spam-Policy: http://www.visi.com/~hawkeyd/index.html#mail Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 12:51:06 -0600 From: D J Hawkey Jr To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040205185105.GA4323@sheol.localdomain> References: <20040205182315.GA4243@sheol.localdomain> <20040205183533.GF26606@pir.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040205183533.GF26606@pir.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: Re: Dell S2D partition woes X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: hawkeyd@visi.com List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 19:25:55 -0000 On Feb 05, at 01:35 PM, Peter Radcliffe wrote: > > D J Hawkey Jr 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. OK, I'm wrong. I can try the DOS phdisk.exe utility. I found "phdisk.zip", "phdisk34.zip", and "phdisk43.zip". Is one preferable over the others? > 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. Not an issue; the disk is just 3Gb. Dave -- ______________________ ______________________ \__________________ \ D. J. HAWKEY JR. / __________________/ \________________/\ hawkeyd@visi.com /\________________/ http://www.visi.com/~hawkeyd/