> On a recent installfest I ran into that with a Toshiba laptop. The owner > didn't know what that partition was for, so we removed it (~40 MB) using > linux's fdisk. We proceeded with the installation, rebooted, and surprise, > surprise, the machine stopped booting! We disable power saving and all that > stuff, and the machine wouldn't boot. We removed the hd from the BIOS, and > the machine was able to boot from a floppy. We recreated the partition > (same type, same place), and the machine worked again. > > After reading the manual, which essentially doesn't say a thing about this > partition, I got the impression it's for the "resume/suspend" function of > the laptop. I don't understand why the machine doesn't even boot without > it, but I learned not to touch those. Ever. you can touch it if you disable SUSPEND TO DISK or 0V SUPEND in BIOS! it's a supend to disk or 0V(V as Voltage) partition (type a0) it's normally allocated in the end of the diskarea and should be a little greater than your physically RAM size eg 64M ram = 70-80M 0V parttion the extra space is for cache+cpu state and so on :)