Re: best known methods for dual boot with XP with functional hibernate?
"Josh Malone" <[email protected]>
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Windows XP, I believe, won't bother with the s2d partition because it has "built-in" software suspend/hibernate mode. This machine does have BIOS hibernate, though, so the proper APM call in FreeBSD will trigger BIOS to use the s2d partition. If memory serves, something like Fn-Z triggers this under FreeBSD (but no guarantees on my memory - actually, no guarantees on ANYTHING :) So, make the s2d partition, then install FreeBSD and XP and don't worry about XP would be my advice. (so long as XP doesn't overwrite the s2d part; I seem to recall NT5 doing that to my dell...I just had to re-make the s2d using the free space after my BSD partition that I left....funky but it worked). Anybody wanna correct me about XP's behaviour in the presence of BIOS hibernate? -Josh On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Timothy Luoma wrote: > > I am getting ready to try and do this with my Dell 7500 so I'm > particularly interested in how to do this correctly. > > I have a 29gb hard drive, 512mb ram and (IIRC) a 16mb video card. So if I > understand correctly I have to make a "Save to Disk" partition of 528mb. > > What I plan to do is this: > > 1) Make a 10gb FAT32 partition (so it can be mounted R/W from FreeBSD) for > WinXP > 2) Make a Save to Disk (S2D) partition > 3) Install FreeBSD in the remaining space > > I have "D5788807.exe" and "Z5788807.exe" which I downloaded from Dell's > website. I believe one of these will make the S2D partition. I have > turned on 'Save to disk' (instead of save to ram) in the BIOS. > > How does WinXP know to use the partition and not create a hibernation file? > For that matter, how does FreeBSD know to use it? What do I need to > install once I get FBSD running to enable it? (I'm a relative newbie to > FBSD, but I did get 4.8 installed on the machine without much trouble). > > Thanks > > TjL > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"