From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Feb 22 12:51:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from smartie.braingarage.com (m206-51.dsl.tsoft.com [198.144.206.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8897437B76D for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 12:51:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Robert@braingarage.com) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by smartie.braingarage.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA06562; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 12:53:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Robert@braingarage.com) Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 12:53:20 -0800 (PST) From: robert bowen Message-Id: <200002222053.MAA06562@smartie.braingarage.com> X-Authentication-Warning: smartie.braingarage.com: nobody set sender to Robert@braingarage.com using -f To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Reply-To: Robert@braingarage.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: IMP/PHP3 Imap webMail Program 2.0.11 Subject: Disk label problems, Hello Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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