On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 10:46:59PM +0200, Stijn Vander Maelen wrote: > 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... It either stores the RAM contents in a special partition, or in the contiguous file "hiberfil.sys" on the first FAT partition. Erik -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands Phone: +31-15-2783635 Fax: +31-15-2781843 Email: J.A.K.Mouw@its.tudelft.nl WWW: http://www-ict.its.tudelft.nl/~erik/ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
