[nycbug-talk] Dual boot IBM thinkpad T40?

[bruno]

On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 09:33:53AM -0400, Okan Demirmen wrote:
> On Tue 2005.07.26 at 15:47 -0400, Joshua S. Freeman wrote:
> > Okan.. I'm not sure I fully understand your guidance here and whether/how it
> > applies to me or not.
> > 
> > Can you further elucidate?
> 
> sure. so of all the advice you have been given, it is up to you to
> either resize your windows partition down and make room for your new OS,
> or wipe your disk and install from scratch.
> 
> if you do the latter, then my advice applies. if you wipe the whole
> disk, when (re)installing your OS's, remember to leave space at the
> *beginning* of your drive for hibernation. if you want, just grab an
> OpenBSD bootdisk (or whatever) and check out what IBM gave you as a
> default disklayout - their first partition is OS/2 - which holds thier
> recovery stuff, as well as the hibernation file. if you blow away your
> whole disk, you need to create that with room for just the hibernation
> file.

Your advice applies in both cases, at least on modern Thinkpads I've
seen, where there is no partition in front any more, there is only one
in the back of the disk and that is the recovery one. It looks like
this is because XP can hybernate with software, and needs no partition
anymore.