From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 24 23:58:41 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65F3016A4CE for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2004 23:58:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.docisland.org (bsdguy.net1.nerim.net [62.212.99.171]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66B7043D39 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2004 23:58:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from saad@docisland.org) Received: by mail.docisland.org (Postfix, from userid 1010) id 3C189F25A; Sun, 25 Jan 2004 08:58:55 +0100 (CET) Received: from eek.docisland.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.docisland.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF200F254 for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2004 08:58:48 +0100 (CET) Received: by eek.docisland.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id ECBF06138; Sun, 25 Jan 2004 09:58:20 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 09:58:20 +0100 From: Saad Kadhi To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040125085820.GA1619@docisland.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org References: <20040124.205426.04788366.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20040124.205426.04788366.imp@bsdimp.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.61 (1.212.2.1-2003-12-09-exp) on metapod.docisland.org X-Sanitizer: DocIsland Mail Filter MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: Dell S4BIOS partition X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 07:58:41 -0000 On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 08:54:26PM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote: > Can anybody give me some pointers on how to (re)create the DELL BIOS > save to disk partition? I've upgraded disks and managed to lose this > in the transition. I have a Dell Inspiron 8000, if that matters. this is done using 'mks2d.exe'. it is avail for download on dell support site (downloads area). there is also an RH-7.2 specific tool there. I don't know what's the difference. hth. -- Saad Kadhi -- [saad@docisland.org] [saad.kadhi@hapsis.fr] [gpg keyid: 19C6C735 http://pgp.mit.edu] [gpg fingerprint: E3A2 D64B 78EC 1E9D 5EB5 14AA F52F 473F 19C6 C735] ---