From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 23 05:35:07 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A4C516A4B3 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2003 05:35:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from moo.sysabend.org (moo.sysabend.org [66.111.41.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E5E843FAF for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2003 05:35:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ragnar@sysabend.org) Received: by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix, from userid 1004) id C67319DA; Thu, 23 Oct 2003 05:35:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C37219D4; Thu, 23 Oct 2003 05:35:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Jamie Bowden To: John Reynolds In-Reply-To: <16263.27709.682246.167116@whale.home-net> Message-ID: <20031023053029.S20891-100000@moo.sysabend.org> X-representing: Only myself. X-badge: We don't need no stinking badges. X-obligatory-profanity: Fuck X-moo: Moo. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: best known methods for dual boot with XP with functional hibernate? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 12:35:07 -0000 X-Original-Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 05:35:05 -0700 (PDT) X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 12:35:07 -0000 On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, John Reynolds wrote: > hello all, > > Are there best known methods for dual booting FreeBSD (5.1-current) on a > laptop with WinXP pro while retaining hibernate functionality? > I just got a Dell Inspiron 5150 laptop and amazingly suspend and > hibernate functions work! (whereas they horribly did not with Win98 on > my CPxJ). I believe that the hibernate function uses a special partition > to dump RAM to, correct? You're thinking of Suspend to Disk. S2D uses a special partition in order to function. Hibernate uses a file on the Windows %system% partition, and needs nothing outside of the windows partition to function. > I'd like to nuke this current setup and go with a dual boot > configuration, but I want to be able to have XP utilize whatever it > needs to to hibernate correctly (and maybe even FreeBSD too if ACPI > works). I've told windows to hibernate and booted FreeBSD with no problems, once I'm done, I restart windows and it comes out of hibernation just fine. I'm currently running WinXP Pro and FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASEp10 in a dual boot configuration on a Latitude C810. I haven't tried S2D under FBSD, and have no idea if it works. I don't have an S2D partition on my machine. Jamie Bowden -- "It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold" Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur" Iain Bowen