Dell S2D partition woes

[D J Hawkey Jr]

On Feb 05, at 01:35 PM, Peter Radcliffe wrote:
> 
> D J Hawkey Jr <hawkeyd at visi.com> probably said:
> > So, two questions: Is my assumption correct, that the BIOS wants S2D on
> > slice #1, and if so, can I make the existing disk labels "jibe" with the
> > changed FBSD slice? I'm assuming that simply editing /etc/fstab before
> > rebooting with the new slice table won't cut it.
> 
> All the laptop save to disk BIOS stuff I have experience with is
> phoenix bios, I set them up with phdisk.exe from DOS. These have
> always had to be fdisk partition #4. Always. IBM laptops, Sony
> laptops, they've all been the same.

OK, I'm wrong. I can try the DOS phdisk.exe utility. I found "phdisk.zip",
"phdisk34.zip", and "phdisk43.zip". Is one preferable over the others?

> On many (all ?) of the laptops I've set this up on the suspend to disk
> partition has hat to be inside the first 8Gb of disk, I've usually
> installed windows for dual boot in the first 6Gb or so, then suspend
> partition, then FreeBSD.

Not an issue; the disk is just 3Gb.

Dave

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