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Date:      Tue, 16 Apr 2002 20:27:13 +0900
From:      Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To:        Bjarne Wichmann Petersen <freebsd.nospam@mekanix.dk>
Cc:        "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.ORG>, Dan Pelleg <peldan@yahoo.com>, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: success story: FreeBSD on IBM ThinkPad X23
Message-ID:  <E16xR7B-0000Jh-00@roam.psg.com>
References:  <15545.60617.677567.597037@palraz.wburn> <20020415120047.GA32473@madman.nectar.cc> <20020416111953.HDAV6796.fepZ.post.tele.dk@there>

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> Is there any reason it *must* be the first partition (I've got w2k on that)? 
> And this FAT-partition, is it to be exclusively for hibernation or can it be 
> used for any purpose?

no

roam.psg.com:/etc# fdisk ad0
******* Working on device /dev/ad0 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=2432 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)

Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=2432 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)

Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 11,(DOS or Windows 95 with 32 bit FAT)
    start 578403, size 15534792 (7585 Meg), flag 80 (active)
        beg: cyl 36/ head 1/ sector 1;
        end: cyl 1002/ head 254/ sector 63
The data for partition 2 is:
sysid 132,(unknown)
    start 63, size 562212 (274 Meg), flag 0
        beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
        end: cyl 34/ head 254/ sector 63
The data for partition 3 is:
sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
    start 16113195, size 22956885 (11209 Meg), flag 0
        beg: cyl 1003/ head 0/ sector 1;
        end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63
The data for partition 4 is:
<UNUSED>

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