best known methods for dual boot with XP with functional hibernate?

[Josh Malone]

Windows XP, I believe, won't bother with the s2d partition because it has
"built-in" software suspend/hibernate mode.  This machine does have BIOS
hibernate, though, so the proper APM call in FreeBSD will trigger BIOS to
use the s2d partition.  If memory serves, something like Fn-Z triggers this
under FreeBSD (but no guarantees on my memory - actually, no guarantees on
ANYTHING  :)

So, make the s2d partition, then install FreeBSD and XP and don't worry
about XP would be my advice. (so long as XP doesn't overwrite the s2d
part; I seem to recall NT5 doing that to my dell...I just had to re-make
the s2d using the free space after my BSD partition that I left....funky
but it worked).

Anybody wanna correct me about XP's behaviour in the presence of BIOS
hibernate?

				-Josh

On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Timothy Luoma wrote:

>
> I am getting ready to try and do this with my Dell 7500 so I'm
> particularly interested in how to do this correctly.
>
> I have a 29gb hard drive, 512mb ram and (IIRC) a 16mb video card.  So if I
> understand correctly I have to make a "Save to Disk" partition of 528mb.
>
> What I plan to do is this:
>
> 1) Make a 10gb FAT32 partition (so it can be mounted R/W from FreeBSD) for
> WinXP
> 2) Make a Save to Disk (S2D) partition
> 3) Install FreeBSD in the remaining space
>
> I have "D5788807.exe" and "Z5788807.exe" which I downloaded from Dell's
> website.  I believe one of these will make the S2D partition.  I have
> turned on 'Save to disk' (instead of save to ram) in the BIOS.
>
> How does WinXP know to use the partition and not create a hibernation file?
> For that matter, how does FreeBSD know to use it?  What do I need to
> install once I get FBSD running to enable it?  (I'm a relative newbie to
> FBSD, but I did get 4.8 installed on the machine without much trouble).
>
> Thanks
>
> TjL
>