Re: Partition Type A0 ??
its a a0 but depending on the version of your fdisk/cfdisk... it may not know
it by name
On 13-May-99 chris burgess wrote:
> my Extensa had the same, and seems to operate fine with or without. it's for
> the suspend software to dump its inner thoughts to when susp'd, and at least
> on my box the 40Mb == the max RAM. I think it was type unknown, but might
> have been type amoeba (??).
>
> don't think it should be of any use w/out the suspend software to write to
> it.
>
> cheers,
>
> c
>
> On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 07:20:05AM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
>> 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.
>
> --
> chris burgess
> http://ibex.co.nz
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Date: 13-May-99
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