> This is semi-OT, but how does that work, actually? I mean, I know how > suspend to disk works in principle, but if it's done purely from the > BIOS, wouldn't the BIOS need to know about (and use) a special > partition to store the RAM contents? Otherwise, how would the BIOS > know where to store the RAM contents in the absence of OS involvement?
on at least older thinkpads, it would swap to an msdos partition that had a specially-formatted "save2dsk.bin" file. tphdisk in the ports tree can be used for that.
