I have that disabled from the BIOS.  If I enable it, when the laptop goes to 
sleep, I get a nice screen telling me it couldn't find the suspend-to-disk 
partition....

-Jesse


>I'd look into the "special BIOS sleep partition" idea. My laptop uses one.
>There was a little DOS utility that the docs mentioned to set it up (for
>when you do a custom install). Could be your BIOS doesn't actually check
>the MBR but thinks there's one, and writes it, even though the MBR might
>say that part of the disk is for NetBSD. :-|
>
>Just a hypothesis.
>
>Take care,
>
>Bill