* Trent W. Buck <[email protected]> [2010-07-17 18:13]: > My 1005P has a second power button which, in the default configuration, > boots the DeviceVM "instant on" OS. Pushing it now just makes it wait a > little while, then give up and do a normal boot.
It should still boot the "instant on" OS, if you've kept the original partitioning sheme. I think the main thing is to keep the very last (EFI) partition. Here's an "fdisk -l" from a 1001P (smaller hard drive and XP instead of Win7 by default but otherwise with identical hardware to the 1005 AFAIK): /dev/sda1 * 1 10444 83891398+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 10445 18558 65175705 83 Linux /dev/sda3 18559 19451 7173022+ 1c Hidden W95 FAT32 /(LBA) /dev/sda4 19452 19457 48195 ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32) I didn't zap the partitions when I installed Linux, so sda1 is Windows (at the moment), sda2 is Linux, sda3 is the recovery partition (that lets you overwrite sda1 and put the evil OS there again in case you ever need to pass on your Eee or send it in to ASUS or do other experiments). sda4 is the EFI partition that's probably holds the "instant on" OS. > Does anyone understand what the firmware is actually trying to do > (e.g. load the second PBR instead of the MBR)? I'd find it quite useful > to be able to define a second default boot option. Pragmatic approach: You could just put a 2nd OS on a 2nd partition and/or boot from a USB device. But - out of curiousity - let us know if you find out how to boot a system of choice via the 2nd power button. Robert _______________________________________________ Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel
