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

[Phil Endecott]

Luca Niccoli wrote:
> 2008/11/26 W. Martin Borgert <debacle at debian.org>:
>> Could you explain how to restore the boot booster stuff in the
>> wiki, please? TIA.
>
> It isn't that easy: the point is that one has to make a 16Mb ef-type
> partition at the beginning of the disk (maybe it's not necessary to
> keep it at the beginning

Here's my experience with a 901: it doesn't need to be at the beginning 
of the disk, but I presume that it has to be on the first of the two 
disks (has anyone tried putting it on the second?).  I was able to 
recreate it by shrinking my ext3 root partition slightly.  As far as I 
can see, e2resize cannot shrink an online filesystem.  So I booted into 
the Debian installer rescue mode.  You could use any sort of bootable 
CD or flash drive; I used netboot.  Set the new partition type to EF 
and that's all you need to do.


Phil.