not flaming or attacking or anything like that - just being cautionary... No, don't delete that - 10:1 chances are that you have 32mb of ram and that's your suspend partition - when you suspend to disk, the contents of your ram have to be written... to your disk, and I suspect this is also why our friend here has no success with his suspend due to 'broken bios' - although it is possible that suspend just doesn't work.
-cyn On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Joseph Fannin wrote: > On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 09:52:48PM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote: > > 1. I see that the hard disk has a 32Mb partition called Dell Utility > > Can I safely delete this? What is it? > > I don't seem to have one of these on my i2500, so I'd say it's > probably safe to delete. > > > > 2. How do I make sure that suspend-to-disk will work after installing > > Linux and then Windows (unfortunately I need to use this too) on the > > machine. I will repartinate the disc in Linux. > > > > Dell has broken the BIOS of the i2500, so APM doesn't work. This > means no suspend of any kind in Linux, or even battery status. Power > management works fine in Windows without worrying about it, since Windows > suspends-to-disk in a file in its own filesystem. (I'm assuming > Windows PM works because they have a working ACPI implementation.) > > Under Linux ACPI isn't very useful either -- it can't suspend or > hibernate, and can't even read the battery status of the i2500 > either. If you have the built in mini-pci ethernet, you'll have to > build a kernel with the intel ACPI patch > (http://developer.intel.com/technology/iapc/acpi/downloads.htm) or > build the non-free e100 driver, since the eepro100 driver and stock > ACPI don't get along, at least for me. If you'd like a re-diff'ed > version of the patch for a recent kernel, let me know.
