Re: Suspend to disk on Laptops?

[Jeremy Katz]

On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 20:59, Tom Reinhart wrote:
> I have a Dell Inspiron 8000, with a suspend to disk feature.  When the 
> suspend is activated, it writes the memory contents into a special 
> partition, marks the partition as active, and shuts off the machine.  To 
> resume, the machine boots from the s2d partition, and makes the OS partition 
> active.

>From what I remember of the wacky Dell laptop suspend/resume stuff, the
best way to handle this is to install grub on the boot partition instead
of the master boot record and mark the boot partition as active.  Leave
the master boot record as a standard DOS/Windows boot record.  Then, the
BIOS takes care of all of the necessary magic.

Cheers,

Jeremy