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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