[ltp] Second Hidden Partition

Peter Stuge linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 18 Oct 2004 18:59:16 +0200


On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 12:31:08PM -0300, David Payne wrote:
> I recently bought a used IBM ThinkPad R31 (I don't have a whole lot of
> money).  I wish to install Gentoo Linux on the ThinkPad.  I am
> wondering, if I remove the second hidden fat32 partition, called
> /dev/hda2 will that do anything bad to the BIOS?

No. But the BIOS "version" (APM?) of suspend-to-disk will not work
anymore, which may be a problem since the Linux ditto isn't quite
ready for production yet.


//Peter