From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Mar 27 15: 5:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from hindenburg.eboai.org (hindenburg.eboai.org [206.183.134.245]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5D5F37B416 for ; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 15:05:12 -0800 (PST) Received: by hindenburg.eboai.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 58A3C5E2E6; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 18:05:11 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 18:05:11 -0500 From: Chip Marshall To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Install problems on Sony VAIO PCG-GR300 Message-ID: <20020327230511.GA64971@chocobo.cx> Reply-To: chip@chocobo.cx Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="VbJkn9YxBvnuCH5J" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-URL: http://www.chocobo.cx/chip/ X-OS: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386 up 171 days, 16:23 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --VbJkn9YxBvnuCH5J Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello everybody, I just got a shiny new VAIO PCG-GR300 yesterday with Windows XP Home installed, so naturally the first thing I tried to do was install FreeBSD 4.5-R from the FreeBSD Mall CD's. The laptop shipped with a FAT partition and an NTFS partition (latter in an extended partition.) I used Partition Magic to cut the NTFS partition in half, creating a third primary unformatted partition. At this point, I can reboot and everything seems happy. I then pop in the FreeBSD install CD, and go though the install procedure. I install onto the new 3rd primary partition, and tell it not to install a boot loader, intending to use WinXP's loader. The install goes fine and everything seems happy. However, when I reboot I'm greeted by a nice and friendly "Missing operating system" message. I've been through this twice today. The first time I popped in the Sony Recovery CD's, and did a full restore. I tried a partial restore first, but it didn't work, same error message. It seems that the partition table is wonky, since the restore program complains that D: is missing. Any ideas? --=20 Chip Marshall http://www.chocobo.cx/chip/ GCM/CS d+(-) s+:++ a20>? C++ UB++++$ P+++$ L- E--- W++ N@ o K- w O M+ V-- PS+ PE Y+ PGP+ t+@ 5 X R@ tv+() b++>+++ DI++++ D(-) G++ e>++ h->++ r++ y- --VbJkn9YxBvnuCH5J Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8olAm8vyTVl6qbdQRAoHPAJsGXP8HvGLg+H4FzTgpIZcvKEOg+wCfeiPi cogOrEm5EnU0zykkIgV4Eb8= =IEM3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --VbJkn9YxBvnuCH5J-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message