From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 11 07:15:21 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 E66AF16A4D5 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 2004 07:15:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from corb.mc.mpls.visi.com (corb.mc.mpls.visi.com [208.42.156.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27E5A43D41 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 2004 07:15:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hawkeyd@visi.com) Received: from sheol.localdomain (hawkeyd-fw.dsl.visi.com [208.42.101.193]) by corb.mc.mpls.visi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F208C9918 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 2004 09:14:59 -0600 (CST) Received: (from hawkeyd@localhost) by sheol.localdomain (8.11.6p2/8.11.6) id i1BFExN03117 for freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org; Wed, 11 Feb 2004 09:14:59 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from hawkeyd) X-Spam-Policy: http://www.visi.com/~hawkeyd/index.html#mail Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 09:14:59 -0600 From: D J Hawkey Jr To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040211151459.GA3041@sheol.localdomain> References: <20040205182315.GA4243@sheol.localdomain> <20040205183533.GF26606@pir.net> <20040205185105.GA4323@sheol.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040205185105.GA4323@sheol.localdomain> 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: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 15:15:22 -0000 On Feb 05, at 01:35 PM, Peter Radcliffe wrote: > > 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 finally got it working. On this particular machine, a Dell Latitude CPi D233ST A12, neither lphdisk nor any of the phdisk.exe utilities I found work. These utilities expect an S2D slice signature of 0xa0 at the fourth slice, as you wrote. However, this machine expects an S2D slice signature of 0x84, as created by Dell's mks2d utility (specifically, DE987901 'mks2d -F'). It put the S2D slice at what I assume is the first open table entry (the second one, in my case). I haven't experimented with moving the S2D slice to another table entry to see if the BIOS will find it at any entry. All is well just as it is. For future reference (if that's an appropriate preamble, considering this machine's age), the existing FreeBSD slice was not harmed, p'raps due to the "-F" switch? I followed the directions in the supplied readme.s2d explicitly. Dave -- ______________________ ______________________ \__________________ \ D. J. HAWKEY JR. / __________________/ \________________/\ hawkeyd@visi.com /\________________/ http://www.visi.com/~hawkeyd/