From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Mar 20 7:58:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from moek.pir.net (moek.pir.net [209.192.237.190]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41FAD37B81A for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 07:58:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pir@pir.net) Received: from pir by moek.pir.net with local (Exim) id 12X4ZP-0000ju-00 for freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:58:19 -0500 Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:58:18 -0500 From: Peter Radcliffe To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD 4.0 on Sony Vaio PCG-F490 laptop Message-ID: <20000320105818.A2043@pir.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org References: <200003200731.XAA00615@www.chasm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200003200731.XAA00615@www.chasm.org>; from martin@chasm.org on Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 11:31:12PM -0800 X-fish: < Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Charles Martin probably said: > 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. > (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? Did you power cycle the laptop ? One of the few problems I've had with my sony laptop is the A20 control problem after booting from some sources - like the Partition Magic recovery floppy every time and occasionally freebsd - it will not boot windows until I power the machine off and back on again. I just got into the habit of power cycling the machine in general before booting windows (freebsd deals fine). As to resizing, I recommend Partition Magic. Yes, it's commercial, but it will resize fat32 partitions amongst other things (like converting between fat16 anf fat32 in both directions) and generally seems to work quite well. P. -- pir pir@pir.net pir@net.tufts.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message