Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 07:19:14 +0100 (CET) From: Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirkx@webweaving.org> To: Simon Holliday <si@mystery-machine.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sony VAIO Z600RE Hibernation Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003240718590.6221-100000@vaio.ispra.webweaving.org> In-Reply-To: <000b01bf951e$8c7fb380$310110ac@billco.internal>
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What does an fdisk give you for the partition table ? DW On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Simon Holliday wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Having some problems with this machine (Z505 something in the US I think). > > I am trying to set it up dual-boot with Windows 98. The Sony install CD > re-partitions the disk with a (approx) 8MB Windows parition, a 4MB empty > partition and a small partition at the end of the disk which I believe is > for the hibernation disk-write. The first time I installed, hibernation > failed to work, so I assumed I had mistakenly over-written part of the > hibernation partition, although it _appeared_ to still be there. The most > recent time, after installing FreeBSD, I booted back into Windows to check > that hibernation would still work. It worked fine, minus the graphical > progress bar while the memory is written to disk. I could restore from > hibernation back to Windows with no problem. This lack of blocky progress > bar didn't bother me (although I wasn't sure why it was missing), so I > progressed with configuring FreeBSD, installing X, etc. However, after a > few boots back and forth, the hibernation now fails completely. > > I have tried this with FreeBSD 3.4 and 4.0, using the standard boot manager. > > Any ideas what's going on? > > > > Si. > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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