From owner-freebsd-fs Tue Oct 10 17:24:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mail-relay.eunet.no (mail-relay.eunet.no [193.71.71.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5873537B66D for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 17:24:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from login-1.eunet.no (login-1.eunet.no [193.75.110.2]) by mail-relay.eunet.no (8.9.3/8.9.3/GN) with ESMTP id CAA67977; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 02:24:06 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mbendiks@eunet.no) Received: from localhost (mbendiks@localhost) by login-1.eunet.no (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA51134; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 02:24:06 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mbendiks@eunet.no) X-Authentication-Warning: login-1.eunet.no: mbendiks owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 02:24:06 +0200 (CEST) From: Marius Bendiksen To: Terry Lambert Cc: Michael Lucas , "Daniel C. Sobral" , freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, Greg Lehey Subject: Re: IBM Thinkpad suspending to 165 (was Re: Partition (Slice) tables) In-Reply-To: <200010101928.MAA15822@usr09.primenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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