you can touch it if you disable SUSPEND TO DISK or 0V SUPEND in BIOS! its a supend to disk or 0V(V as Voltage) partition (type a0) its normally allocated in the end of the diskarea and should be a little greater than your physically RAM size eg 64M ram = 70-80M 0V parttion the extra space is for cache+cpu state and so on :)
sincerely rune On 12-May-99 Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > On Tue, May 11, 1999 at 10:46:22PM -0400, Will Lowe wrote: > >> I booted it from the 2.1 CD, and ran cfdisk. It's a 4.something >> gig drive, which has 3 paions: a 2gig one, another 2gig one, a >> 162.5 gig one, and 7 megs of free space. The 162.5 gig partition (which >> we'd like to delete) shows up as partition type A0 in cfdisk. > > On a recent installfest I ran into that with a Toshiba laptop. The owner > didn't know what that partition was for, so we removed it (~40 MB) using > linux's fdisk. We proceeded with the installation, rebooted, and surprise, > surprise, the machine stopped booting! We disable power saving and all that > stuff, and the machine wouldn't boot. We removed the hd from the BIOS, and > the machine was able to boot from a floppy. We recreated the partition > (same type, same place), and the machine worked again. > > After reading the manual, which essentially doesn't say a thing about this > partition, I got the impression it's for the "resume/suspend" function of > the laptop. I don't understand why the machine doesn't even boot without > it, but I learned not to touch those. Ever. > > > Marcelo ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Rune Linding Raun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 12-May-99 Time: 17:09:37 This message was sent by XFMail ----------------------------------
