Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 12:53:20 -0800 (PST) From: robert bowen <Robert@braingarage.com> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Disk label problems, Hello Message-ID: <200002222053.MAA06562@smartie.braingarage.com>
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Hi - I just got 3.4-RELEASE running on my Thinkpad 240. Everything went great during the install, but I had some strange disklabel problems after. I left a 2G win98 partition on the machine, and booted into both OS's a few times. Then, I booted into windows again and shut down the computer. After I re-booted (without changing anything), FreeBSD wouldn't boot. The boot manager came up, but it couldn't load the boot loader or kernel. I finally used sysinstall, but there were no slices listed under disklabel!! Fdisk showed an active FreeBSD partition, but disklabel showed NO slices. I was expecting to see partitions listed with no mount point, but there was nothing there at all. I reinstalled the system, and foolishly booted into Windows again. Same thing. In the end I reinstalled FreeBSD and selected no boot manager. Now FreeBSD boots perfect and there is no Win cause problems. I would chalk it up to weirdness, but for the fact that I was able to boot perfectly fine into bot systems several times. The lesson I guess is to just get rid of the wasted Windows space. Is there any hope of writing a program to make the machine suspend to a FreeBSD partition?? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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