From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 16 16:09:03 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E48F16A4CE for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 16:09:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net (smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net [203.16.214.181]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C03343D45 for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 16:09:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from midget.dons.net.au (ppp55-224.lns1.adl2.internode.on.net [150.101.55.224])i0H08mxC021693; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 10:38:49 +1030 (CST) Received: from chowder.dons.net.au (root@localhost.dons.net.au [127.0.0.1]) by midget.dons.net.au (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i0H08knY086770; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 10:38:46 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Dan Nelson Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 10:38:45 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <000c01c3da44$8a6d5c40$0202a8c0@karputer> <200401162111.55979.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20040116164907.GD53031@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20040116164907.GD53031@dan.emsphone.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200401171038.45425.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -5 () IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SIGNATURE_SHORT_DENSE,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_KMAIL X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.26 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: toxa Subject: Re: acpi S4 resume partition X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 00:09:03 -0000 On Saturday 17 January 2004 03:19, Dan Nelson wrote: > > Basically boot0cfg -s X /dev/ad0 > > So S4BIOS does only the first half of the job, or is there some magic > BIOS/ACPI call FreeBSD can do to make this happen automatically? I > can't believe Windows modifies the MBR on suspend... WinME and higher don't use S4BIOS anyway so it's irrelevant. Prior to that it was dependant on the BIOS and on at least on laptop we have at work it did modify the MBR to boot off the correct partition after an APM suspend to disk. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5