Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 12:48:45 -0500 From: "C. Stephen Gunn" <csg@waterspout.com> To: Jeremy Lea <reg@shale.csir.co.za> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Carrying Bag for VAIO 505-TR Message-ID: <200003181748.MAA04972@dustdevil.waterspout.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 17 Mar 2000 18:35:09 PST." <20000317183509.B47550@shale.csir.co.za>
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On Fri, 17 Mar 2000 18:35:09 PST, Jeremy Lea wrote: > You wouldn't happen to have the details on the hibernation partition > for this machine? I just got one and I've yet to install freebsd. > However, it didn't come with a hiberbation partition, and I want > to set it up right before I repartition. I'm not sure I remember all the details. Here's the fdisk output of my disk (running 4.0-STABLE): > ******* Working on device /dev/rad0 ******* > parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: > cylinders=839 heads=240 sectors/track=63 (15120 blks/cyl) > > parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: > cylinders=839 heads=240 sectors/track=63 (15120 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 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) > start 63, size 12398337 (6053 Meg), flag 80 (active) > beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1; > end: cyl 819/ sector 63/ head 239 > The data for partition 2 is: > <UNUSED> > The data for partition 3 is: > <UNUSED> > The data for partition 4 is: > sysid 160,(unknown) > start 12398400, size 272160 (132 Meg), flag 0 > beg: cyl 820/ sector 1/ head 0; > end: cyl 837/ sector 63/ head 239 I heard (from Andrew Korty - on the cc: line) that there was a DOS based utility on the "restore my machine" CDROM that will initialize the sysid 160 partition for you. I've included part of his recent email to me on the topic: > Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 16:42:49 EST > To: "C. Stephen Gunn" <csg@waterspout.com> > From: "Andrew J. Korty" <ajk@iu.edu> > Subject: Re: Vaio come and me wanna go home > > Apparently the hibernation slice has to be formatted somehow. The > PHDISK.EXE tool on the System Recovery CD does it. I can hibernate > now, but I have to manually power it off (holding the power switch > for 4 seconds) when it is done saving to disk after I hit Fn-F12. > I'm sure that's not right. Does yours do that? Hope this help you get it working. It's a nice machine. - Steve -- C. Stephen Gunn, Computer Systems Engineer <csg@physics.purdue.edu> Physics Computer Network, Purdue University To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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