Date: 07 Jul 2001 17:49:34 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>, Greg Smith <freebsd_mail@yahoo.com>, Oliver Fischer <nexus@fileseeker.net>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, roam@orbitel.bg Subject: Re: ThinkPad hibernation (was: Hibernation on FreeBSD) Message-ID: <xzp4rso91td.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <20010704231914.A72648@mail.webmonster.de> References: <001901c1015c$e8bd1790$8a04a8c0@warpgondel> <200106300916540300.00177DE8@smtp.mail.yahoo.com> <025f01c102c0$9177f9e0$8a04a8c0@warpgondel> <200107020051250270.000E8A15@smtp.mail.yahoo.com> <20010702173846.D79697@mail.webmonster.de> <20010704111544.B1649@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> <20010704231914.A72648@mail.webmonster.de>
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"Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de> writes: > a raw device the size of the installed ram would be easiest, anyway ;-) > handling a contiguous file in the root fs or whereever might be much too > complicated to linear-load from the bootloader. it is not possible to > create a single file with contiguous blocks that is not separated by > cylinder group boundaries and the like... The loader shouldn't have any trouble reading a file from the root partition (or any partition for that matter) - there's no need for the file to be stored on contiguous blocks, the only requirement is that the file must be entirely within the BIOS-addressable portion of the disk. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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