From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Lord Subject: Re: swsusp and suspend2 like to overheat my laptop Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 09:05:50 -0400 Message-ID: <44D9DDAE.8080708@rtr.ca> References: <1155080145.26338.130.camel@mindpipe> <200608090942.12404.nigel@suspend2.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: suspend2-devel-bounces@lists.suspend2.net Errors-To: suspend2-devel-bounces@lists.suspend2.net To: Steven Rostedt Cc: linux-pm@osdl.org, LKML , pavel@suse.cz, Lee Revell , Suspend2-devel@lists.suspend2.net List-Id: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org Steven Rostedt wrote: > > I would prefer to do both, but I really can't tell you if the $OTHER_OS > works or not. I booted it once with this machine, and that was only to > register it with IBM. ;) > > After that, I slapped in my Debian install CD and the rest is history. My own solution for BIOS updates was to reinstall the MS stuff completely to a small old bootable external USB drive, and place it on a shelf for contingency / testing uses. That way it doesn't even require a boot sector from the main drive. Cheers