It just so sad that this happened. Why would they choose to use a5 for their suspend partion type suddenly? I makes sense that BSD won't boot, since the BIOS now thinks that type a5 shouldn't be bootable. If you look up a couple of entries on the mentioned page, you see that "a0" has historically been use by ThinkPads for this purpose.
I wonder if it is a type-o that is hard to fix. Just think: now they have thousands of laptops out there suspending to an a5 parition. They'd have to distribute a BIOS patch and a utility to change the partition type marker on existing suspend partitions.
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It just so sad that this happened. Why would they choose to use a5 for their suspend partion type suddenly? I makes sense that BSD won't boot, since the BIOS now thinks that type a5 shouldn't be bootable. If you look up a couple of entries on the mentioned page, you see that "a0" has historically been use by ThinkPads for this purpose.
I wonder if it is a type-o that is hard to fix. Just think: now they have thousands of laptops out there suspending to an a5 parition. They'd have to distribute a BIOS patch and a utility to change the partition type marker on existing suspend partitions.