Re: best known methods for dual boot with XP with functional hibernate?
Peter Radcliffe <[email protected]>
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John Reynolds <[email protected]> probably said: > I believe that the hibernate function uses a special partition to > dump RAM to, correct? If the BIOS supports hibernation (rather than the OS doing it) this is generally the case, yes. > 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). XP uses a file in the normal filesystem to hibernate to, since it deals with it itself rather than letting the BIOS do it for it. There may be issues with the partition id of the XP partition for it to find the hibernation file, I'm unsure. What I did was reinstall my machine (IBM X30) from the recovery CDs and then resize the resultant XP NTFS partition down to make room for FreeBSD and the suspend to disk partition, create the suspend to disk partition and install FreeBSD in the remaining space. Works fine, both OSen will boot and hibernate. I use the XP bootloader to choose between FreeBSD and XP 9a web search will find instructions for doing this if you want to do it). P. -- pir _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"