Re: Dell S2D partition woes
D J Hawkey Jr <[email protected]>
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On Feb 05, at 01:35 PM, Peter Radcliffe wrote: > > D J Hawkey Jr <[email protected]> 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. / __________________/ \________________/\ [email protected] /\________________/ http://www.visi.com/~hawkeyd/ _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"