Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 02:24:06 +0200 (CEST) From: Marius Bendiksen <mbendiks@eunet.no> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>, "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Subject: Re: IBM Thinkpad suspending to 165 (was Re: Partition (Slice) tables) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10010110223440.51113-100000@login-1.eunet.no> In-Reply-To: <200010101928.MAA15822@usr09.primenet.com>
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> The place this has been reported is with a ThinkPad A320, in > a "dangerously dedicated" mode, without a DOS partititon table, > and without a "suspend to disk" partitition. You can get the > details from the advocacy list archives. Actually, the place I heard it was not -advocacy, as I am not subscribed there, but rather through an acquaintance which has been selecting these thinkpads for his employer. ISTR this was with a valid partition table. > In general, the "suspend to disk" function apparently looks for > the first non-DOS, non-Extended, non-Linux partition, and will > stomp its suspend image there. That's worth giving them a couple of round of #00 over... it should probably check for a few other types too, like NTFS/HPFS, FFS, SCO, etc. > So the upshot is "if you do something other than an industry > standard DOS Partitition table on a ThinkPad A320, BIOS version > indeterminate, AND you fail to reserve space for the ``suspend > to disk'' function prior to the FreeBSD partitition, then it will > happily stomp the FreeBSD partitition". Or, more correct, "if you fail to provide a first partition with useless data, and take care with the ordering, you will get your FreeBSD stomped". > There are several. FreeBSD is on most of them. Probably, Linux > used to have the same problem, until they hacked their BIOS to > recognize both DOS and Linux, instead of just DOS (and knowing > IBM, OS/2). Actually, OS/2 would mean NT, as they both use type 7, IIRC, though that is irrelevant to the discussion. Marius To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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