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 -- E-Mail: Rune Linding Raun [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 13-May-99 Time: 12:56:14 This message was sent by XFMail --
Partition Type A0 ??
My girlfriend just bought a laptop. On first booting it, it asked if we'd like to set up the hard disk for Windows95 or Win98. She'll need to dual-boot 95 and Linux, so we let it install Win95, which it proceeded to do _without_ asking for a Win95 cd. I booted it from the 2.1 CD, and ran cfdisk. It's a 4.something gig drive, which has 3 partitions: 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. Looks to me like the company (AST) copied the Win95 cd into that partition, and that's how it did that crazy install-with-no-disk thing. Does anybody know if that's possible? Or know what partition type A0 really is? Will -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ | |PGP Public Key: http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/index.html#pgpkey| -- | You think you're so smart, but I've seen you naked | | and I'll prob'ly see you naked again ... | | --The Barenaked Ladies, Blame It On Me | --
Re: Partition Type A0 ??
Will Lowe wrote: partition, and that's how it did that crazy install-with-no-disk thing. Does anybody know if that's possible? Or know what partition type A0 really is? I don't know about how AST makes it, but I have seen several Laptop's from Toshiba that uses an extra partition in the end that is used for power saving only. I don't have access to that machine anymore so I can't check the partition type. But I'm sure that you can place the Win95 cab-files, on the primary fat partionan and make it bootable from there. (As it was on my Dell mashine.) / Anders
Re: Partition Type A0 ??
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 partitions: 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
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 -- E-Mail: Rune Linding Raun [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 12-May-99 Time: 17:09:37 This message was sent by XFMail --
Re: Partition Type A0 ??
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
