Re: Partition Type A0 ??
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
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Date: 12-May-99
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