From owner-freebsd-fs Wed Oct 11 3: 5: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE9F337B66C for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 03:04:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA37716; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 12:04:40 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Terry Lambert 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) References: <200010101928.MAA15822@usr09.primenet.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 11 Oct 2000 12:04:39 +0200 In-Reply-To: Terry Lambert's message of "Tue, 10 Oct 2000 19:28:05 +0000 (GMT)" Message-ID: Lines: 32 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Terry Lambert 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