[3520] in Release_7.7_team
Urgent issue: How does booting the Maintenance partition work?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Mon Sep 23 17:38:56 2002
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: Steven Sakata <ssakata@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Victor R Rios <riosvic1@us.ibm.com>, Pam Huntley <phuntley@us.ibm.com>,
Michael Schmedlen <mschmedl@us.ibm.com>,
Steven Stiles <sastile@us.ibm.com>, owls@mit.edu, release-team@mit.edu
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Date: 23 Sep 2002 17:38:53 -0400
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Steven:
I was just about to announce that Linux Athena was fully supported on
the IBM R32 and T30 laptops when I discovered a problem:
In spite of us carefully not touching the maintenance partition in any
way, the BIOS F11 key no longer will boot it. (We use partition magic
to shrink the NTFS partition, and leave the maintenance partition
exactly where it came on the drive, and in the partition table.)
We would like to have our Linux install NOT leave the laptop in a state
that prevents people from using the IBM maintanence partition to restore
if they so-choose.
Which of the contacts you gave can help us understand this problem and
expedite its solution? (I've taken the liberty of CC'ing everyone
because I want to get this resolved QUICKLY!)
-wdc
P.S.
If your folks are wondering about the total scope of Laptop issues now
and for the future they are:
1. Getting F11 to work.
2. Fixing a newly discovered X server bug that affects the SXGA+
configuration only: (BIOS screen blanking does not recover unless you
suspend/resume the system. (It's still better than the Dell with the
same problem. You have to power cycle the Dell.))
3. Understanding what seems to be a pre-install problem with Wireless.
The wireless network interface does not work properly under either
Windows or Linux until you use Windows to disable and then re-enable the
card.)
4. Getting save to disk and hibernate to work. (Hitting the hibernate
key does nothing.)
5. Getting auto-suspend to work. (Leaving a system powered up over
night, you come back to a dead battery, not a system that suspended.)
As far as I know, the five issues above are the TOTALITY of getting
Linux completely happy here on laptops. The most urgent is the restore
partition thing. The others are in priority order based on a rough
guess of the customer impact.
