[ltp] Can't hibernate (SMAPI BIOS error)

[Shigeo Tanai]

Dr. Edmund Weitz wrote:
>
>Disk /dev/hda: 240 heads, 63 sectors, 4134 cylinders
>Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 bytes
>
>   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
>/dev/hda1   *         1      2025  15308968+   7  HPFS/NTFS
>/dev/hda2          2026      4093  15634080    f  Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
>/dev/hda3          4094      4134    309960    6  FAT16
>/dev/hda5          2026      2060    264568+  82  Linux swap
>/dev/hda6          2061      4093  15369448+  83  Linux
>
>root@bird:/home/edi > mount -t vfat /dev/hda3 /mnt
>root@bird:/home/edi > ls -l /mnt
>total 271792
>-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root     278315008 Aug 25 17:37 save2dsk.bin
>
>
>One last straw: When the hibernation floppy asked for the size of my
>hibernation file I chose the default value (see above) which I think
>should be correct for 256MB RAM plus the Savage card. Did you guys
>choose another size?

Have you tried to making FAT partition under 1024 cylinder range?
You could shrink your NTFS partition so to make a room before it,
and create new FAT partition for the hibernation file.

BTW, what is your 'hdparm -v -i /dev/hda' output?


Geo


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