Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 00:41:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: des@ofug.org (Dag-Erling Smorgrav) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), 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: <200010120041.RAA10774@usr09.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <xzphf6jsngo.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> from "Dag-Erling Smorgrav" at Oct 11, 2000 12:04:39 PM
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> > 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. This doesn't jibe with the posts I saw; I don't have an A320, I have a Sony VAIO, so I can't speak authoritatively; do you have an A320? > > 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. Puckey. I've seen an A320 running dual boot with Windows 2000 and FreeBSD. > Terry, sorry to say this, but you are *such* a spin doctor... I am not being an appologist for IBM. I haven't worked for them for several weeks; I'm currently working on code that I don't think could have been brought successfully to market in the context of a division of IBM (not dissimilar to the code that I've worked on that couldn't be brought to users, even for free, in the context of the FreeBSD project). FWIW, I heard that it stomped the FreeBSD partition, not merely "hung on boot". A net search shows some postings to Linux lists, and a similar feeding frenzy to what is currently occurring on advocacy, for what I assume is a previous BIOS release on IBM ThinkPads in that series, prior to the Linux advocacy stepping up to bat. I also have a problem with the "OS recovery" CDROM that IBM supplies to recover a system from the standards Windows "degrade into unbootability. Personally, I would recommend use of Partition Magic and Boot Magic, since it seems that if you don't screw around with the MBR or totally eliminate the Windows stuff, it works OK on the A320s I've seen. I haven't had opportunity to need to "recover" my Sony with the Sony recovery tools (yet, anyway), so I can't speak for them. FWIW, I expect that the Sony machine, being from Japan, where the FreeBSD advocacy isn't so milktoast, will probably recover my machine without damaging the FreeBSD partition. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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