[ltp] TP 760 Suspends on boot

Tino Keitel linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Mon, 8 Apr 2002 09:29:26 +0200


On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 12:34:27 +0400, Victor Wagner wrote:
> When  I've bought new harddisk for my Thinpad 760ED
> and installed newer version of Linux on it, i've experienced
> some problems with apm.
> 
> It ends up with machine  going into suspend and refusing to resume.
> 
> Symptoms are following:
> 
> I've pressed Fn F4 as usial, and machine suspended.
> When I've pressed Fn to resume, nothing happened.

Strage...

> Attempt to switch it off resulted in two beeps and nothing more.

This is the normal behaviour during suspend.

> I've tried to remove battery and replace it again.
> After that screen turns on and booting begins.

Have you tried booting without the battery?

> But when it displayed /dev/hda partition check it turns of again
> and suspend indicator lights. Attempt to use power-off switch result
> in two beeps again.

Does it _always_ suspend at the same point? Can you boot off a DOS disk or
Windows partition?

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