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Date:      11 Oct 2000 12:04:39 +0200
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
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)
Message-ID:  <xzphf6jsngo.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: Terry Lambert's message of "Tue, 10 Oct 2000 19:28:05 %2B0000 (GMT)"
References:  <200010101928.MAA15822@usr09.primenet.com>

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Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> 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
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org


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