Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 12:51:06 -0600 From: D J Hawkey Jr <hawkeyd@visi.com> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell S2D partition woes Message-ID: <20040205185105.GA4323@sheol.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20040205183533.GF26606@pir.net> References: <20040205182315.GA4243@sheol.localdomain> <20040205183533.GF26606@pir.net>
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On Feb 05, at 01:35 PM, Peter Radcliffe wrote:
>
> 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.
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
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