Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 12:35:07 -0000 From: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> To: John Reynolds <johnjen@reynoldsnet.org> Cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: best known methods for dual boot with XP with functional hibernate? Message-ID: <20031023053029.S20891-100000@moo.sysabend.org> In-Reply-To: <16263.27709.682246.167116@whale.home-net>
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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 <alaric@alaric.org.uk>
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