From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Mar 19 23:31:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from www.chasm.org (adsl-63-195-80-23.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.195.80.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C41E37B518 for ; Sun, 19 Mar 2000 23:31:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from martin@chasm.org) Received: (from martin@localhost) by www.chasm.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA00615; Sun, 19 Mar 2000 23:31:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from martin@chasm.org) Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 23:31:12 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200003200731.XAA00615@www.chasm.org> X-Authentication-Warning: www.chasm.org: martin set sender to martin@www.chasm.org using -f From: Charles Martin To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Installing FreeBSD 4.0 on Sony Vaio PCG-F490 laptop Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I am trying to install FreeBSD 4.0 on my Sony Vaio PCG-F490 laptop. The laptop comes configured with a C and D drive. In the partition editor I deleted the (extended) D partition and recreated it as a FreeBSD partition. I installed the standard FreeBSD BootMgr. The install seemed to go without difficulty. Upon rebooting, I was presented with the F1; DOS, F2: FreeBSD choice, with F1 preselected. However, I could not select F2; my machine simple beeped at me when I tried. Going back to the partition editor, I see that the geometry is 2205/255/63, so the C partition ending at 18876374 seems to use 1175 cylinders; I guess this is why I can't boot the FreeBSD partition, it is past 1024. But more alarming to me was the result of trying to boot Windows. I get the following: ERROR: Unable to control A20 line! XMS Driver not installed. [A McAfee VirusScan takes place and completes successfully.] Insufficient memory. Insufficient memory. Press any key to continue... HIMEM.SYS is missing. Make sure that the file is in your Windows directory. C:\> (So Windows never does fully boot.) I check C:\WINDOWS and indeed HIMEM.SYS is there. Can someone tell me: (A) How to get my Windows machine back, and (B) How I should go about resizing the C partition to get my FreeBSD root below cylinder 1024? (Do you think the BootMgr wiped out something critical? If so, how can I get it back?) Thanks! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message