Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 02:09:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Marius Bendiksen <mbendiks@eunet.no> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Subject: Re: Partition (Slice) tables Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10010110208250.51005-100000@login-1.eunet.no> In-Reply-To: <39E34DC2.573C7635@newsguy.com>
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> > Regarding the earlier discussion on slice tables, I would like to add that > > there is a legitimate reason for the BIOS to demand a valid slice table. I > > know a number of manufacturers look for a special partition type entry for > > their suspend-to-disk feature. This recently came to my renewed attention, > > as the IBM ThinkPad series now suspend to a partition type 165 (0xA5). > Stupid idiot bastards! While possibly an overstatement, I concur that they have been less than desireably brilliant ;) The BIOSes can apparently not be fixed anytime soon. Marius To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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