Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 21:51:48 +0200 From: Stefan KORONKA <KoronkaS@interscope.ro> To: 'Nathan Vidican' <webmaster@govital.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: FreeBSD killed my laptop, (twice); Thinkpad A20m Message-ID: <D08F9E2FE307D411857300104B34F1A202D9C4@URANUS>
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[..] > I can't imagine that the machine is incapable of running FreeBSD. I > suspect that it may have something to do with the way the system goes > into 'hybernation' mode, (wherein it writes it's current status to > hardisk, and shuts off; so as to resume operations when turned back [..] > Any ideas, comments, suggestions, or otherwise would be greatly > appreciated at this point. I recently installed FreeBSD on an (old) TexasInstruments laptop. I had a similar problem; the system didn't halt, but it showed an ugly bios-warning at bootup. As you assumed, he needit a hybernation partition. The solution was: - create single msdos partition - from that partition, run a program which resized the msddos partition and create the hibernation one (that utility i've found on net; you have the original CDs, so you are more lucky) - run the FreeBSD setup; delete the msdos partition and create a new one (the hibernation partition was showed as the 4th partition) So, my sugestion: - install winse from original cd - run the bsd setup; i think you will see 2 partition: one msdos, and a small one (ramsize+few megs) for hybernation - delete the msdos(fat) partition, but _keep_ the hyb part (or any other "strange" partition) - create your 4gigs msdos partition (if you want) and the bsd partition; - install the OSes Note: if you choose for a MBR loader (for bsd), the win setup will delete it; so, you need to install first windoze, and second FreeBSD. Also, your original "IBM recovery cd-rom" which install Win98 will (most sure) re-partition your harddisk; so, don't run the setup directly from it. Copy the win98kit from cdrom to hardisk, and run the setup from harddisk. Last note: if you screw up your system again, try to put the harddisk into a desktop, and (re)install windoze from there. Your IBM cd might not work for other systems, so you will need to do things manually: create one msdos partition; patch it (create the hyb part) - in order to do this, you need to search for the utility (preferably on CD) - for me, the program who create the hyb partition was called "phdisk.exe"; copy the win98kit to hd, install it, and if you are lucky, when you put the hd back in the laptop, it will boot. Best luck, Stefan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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