Date: 11 Oct 2000 12:04:39 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org (Michael Lucas), dcs@newsguy.com (Daniel C. Sobral), mbendiks@eunet.no (Marius Bendiksen), freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Subject: Re: IBM Thinkpad suspending to 165 (was Re: Partition (Slice) tables) Message-ID: <xzphf6jsngo.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Terry Lambert's message of "Tue, 10 Oct 2000 19:28:05 %2B0000 (GMT)" References: <200010101928.MAA15822@usr09.primenet.com>
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Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> writes: > 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. > > 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. No, it does not. It just freezes during boot. > 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". No, it will not. > Or in simpler terms, "What part of ``_dangerously_ dedicated'' > did you not understand?". Dangerously dedicated has nothing to do with it. The BIOS will freeze even on machines with a proper partition table and Windows 98 or 2000 installed alongside FreeBSD. Terry, sorry to say this, but you are *such* a spin doctor... DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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