Re: acpi S4 resume partition

From: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor_at_gsoft.com.au>
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 10:38:45 +1030
On Saturday 17 January 2004 03:19, Dan Nelson wrote:
> > Basically boot0cfg -s X /dev/ad0
>
> So S4BIOS does only the first half of the job, or is there some magic
> BIOS/ACPI call FreeBSD can do to make this happen automatically?  I
> can't believe Windows modifies the MBR on suspend...

<shrugs>
WinME and higher don't use S4BIOS anyway so it's irrelevant.

Prior to that it was dependant on the BIOS and on at least on laptop we have 
at work it did modify the MBR to boot off the correct partition after an APM 
suspend to disk.

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