Re: Preserving Memory Area Across Reboot

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> BTW: I read this in the apm (advanced power management
> spec).. the BIOS can swap the memory contents to the
> disk and go into a suspend.. and after wakeup restores
> it from the physical store.. quiet interesting....
>
> -Sharath
>
>

Interesting stuff, however, I wonder where the bios stores the memory
contents? Suppose I got 512 MB ram, where does the bios write the data?
Using the regular filesystem or on a special part of the harddisk. Maybe a
bit OT but I have no clue here...

thanks,
stijn

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