[Debian-eeepc-devel] Suggesting Boot Booster on wiki

[Luca Niccoli]

2008/11/26 Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins at tuffmail.co.uk>:

> I find your lack of google-fu disturbing :P.  It seems to apply to all
> models, including the hard drive ones (!).

Sorry, my mum always tells me I shouldn't post after 1AM...
So, I'm going to write on the installation page to keep the partition.

> Agreed, the best solution is to preserve the magic partition.  Of
> course ideally this would be automatic :).  I think some have
> suggested the installer should detect the hardware and be able to
> _create_ the partition if it doesn't exist already, which would also
> be nice to have.

It definitely would, but I think it will take time to have it
implemented in a sane way (should it check against whitelisted models?
ACPI tables?)
Thanks
Luca