Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:36:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: Stephen Beitzel <sbeitzel@foobie.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on a VAIO Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910251420120.391-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <199910250439.VAA05542@foobie.net>
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These VAIOs all seem to have different sound cards, modems, etc. Some of the modems are Winmodems, of which there are a number of varieties. Some of the sound cards have chips that are not yet supported. My VAIO Picturebook has sound and a modem that work. freebsd-mobile's archives might to a worthwhile search; there's a good deal on VAIOs there. Probably you deleted the sort of odd partition on the hard drive? That's the hibernation partition. Mine hibernates with Fn-<ESC>, which works from the bios. Remember the drives in these things are ide. I shrunk my Win98 partition to install FreeBSD, and as I recall I didn't worry about a 1024 cylinder mark, so FreeBSD starts a couple of gigabytes into the drive. That at least works. My experience installing FreeBSD and RedHat dual-boot on an ide drive is that FreeBSD should be installed first (because RedHat will not respect a FreeBSD slice beyond the extended partition where it's installing, and will write over it) and then RedHat given more or less what's left, in the middle of two FreeBSD slices. You can reinstall the FreeBSD boot manager either from a dos bootable floppy with the files on it (or use osbsbeta from the /tools directory) and make sure lilo isn't installed in the mbr. None of these boot manager has any sophistication in comparison to System Commander, but SC needs a dos partition in which to keep its files. If you need to make the FreeBSD partition bootable (to install the boot manager from /stand/sysinstall, also possible) you can do this with dos fdisk. I wrote up some notes on getting pccards to work that are available at http://andrsn.stanford.edu/FreeBSD/pccards.html. I don't know how well 3.2 handles pccards, but at least this will give you a shot at it. Annelise On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Stephen Beitzel wrote: > I have been running a FreeBSD server for quite some time now, using it as a > router for my home network. Recently, I bought a Sony VAIO to do work on and > have tried to set it up as a dual-boot machine: Linux and FreeBSD. I've > encountered some difficulties (and some remarkably easy parts, too, that I'd > be happy to comment at length on in a different forum -- send me email if > you're interested) and I wanted to ask the user base at large to see if > anyone else has figured this stuff out. > > 1) Boot manager conflicts > 2) Sound doesn't work (for either OS) > 3) PCMCIA network card not recognized (FreeBSD only) > > Details: > 1) I installed FreeBSD first (since the Red Hat installer's disk partition > utility couldn't make a BSD partition) and split the drive in half - half > for Linux and half for BSD. At the end of the relatively smooth installation > (off the 3.2 CD-ROM) I turned around and installed Linux without installing > LILO. Then I tried booting the computer. It'd boot to FreeBSD no problem, but > not to Linux. Then I tried reinstalling Linux and installed LILO; this > overwrote the FreeBSD boot manager and on top of that, it wouldn't recognize > the BSD partition as being bootable. Grr. So now I've got this great laptop > that I really want to be using BSD on but that I also need to be able to run > Linux on (for work) and it seems I can't get the two to play nice with each > other. Does anyone have experience with doing this sort of thing? > > 2) This is a new-ish VAIO (PCG-F250, to be precise) and I suspect that > Sony has done something funky with the sound card so that it'll only work with > the custom Windows 98 OS that the machine shipped with. Does anybody know of > any patches for that? (F'rinstance -- between 6.0 and 6.1 Red Hat managed to > fix the DHCP client so that it'd work with an NT DHCP server.) > > 3) I've got a D-Link DFE-650 PCMCIA ethernet card. Linux manages to detect > it alright, but I didn't see it in the list of supported cards in the 3.2 > installer. Subsequently, I haven't been back in to rebuild the FreeBSD kernel > since I haven't been able to boot back to FreeBSD (see 1). Does anyone know > if this card is supported by FreeBSD? > > Thanks for any help anyone may offer... > > Steve > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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