Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 11:52:18 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: hosokawa@ntc.keio.ac.jp (HOSOKAWA Tatsumi), hosokawa@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with Libretto suspend mode. Message-ID: <1496.891597138@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 03 Apr 1998 01:34:09 -0800." <12415.891596049@time.cdrom.com>
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In message <12415.891596049@time.cdrom.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes: >> The latter seems to be the right way (but you don't have to allocate >> such a large area to hybernation). The easiest way to save >> hybernation area of Libretto is executing fdisk.exe from DOS (or >> Windows95's command prompt mode), keep FreeBSD partition as extended >> DOS slice, and change it to FreeBSD slice later from sysinstall. > >Thanks, that worked perfectly! I wonder why it didn't work when I did >it manually, e.g. created the FreeBSD partition at total_size - 64MB >and then created a space-eating 64MB partition at the end of the disk >which I didn't use for anything. Perhaps the Libretto BIOS has >certain rules about where it'll go "at the end" vs literally going >always to the end of the drive? It is very likely that the DOS FDISK couldn't even see this bit of the disk because the bios eats it before anybody notices. Try to look at the output of the FreeBSD Fdisk now and see what it says... -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." "Drink MONO-tonic, it goes down but it will NEVER come back up!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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