[ltp] T21 hibernation

[Bret Comstock Waldow]

Werner Horbelt wrote:

>IBM's standalone boot diskette supports two ways of hibernation:
>a) hibernation partition: didn't work for me. ??
>b) hibernation file on a primary FAT or FAT32 partition, see
>http://www.bm-soft.com/~bm/archives/200203/msg00047.html
>and related postings.
>
Thanks for the reference - the more information the better.

>>hiberfil.sys file on the
>>Windows 2000 partition, put there by the recovery CD IBM suppplied
>>with the Thinkpad.
>>
>W2K uses hiberfil.sys.
>(my) Linux uses save2dsk.bin.
>
So I'm beginning to gather (why does no one put this information on 
their web pages about hibernation?  It's like everyone tries to get away 
with saying the least they can manage - sheesh!  Are they worried 
they'll lose something if they pass on their knowledge?  What's Free 
Software about anyway? )

>>Fn+F12 and tpctl --H both don't hibernate, but give a low beep
>>sound. Fn+F4 does suspend.
>>tpctl --H also gives this message:
>>
>>tpctl: SMAPI BIOS error 0x91 ("system is invalid") -- exiting
>>
>
>I get this message whenever certain loadable kernel modules 
>are loaded. This includes pcmcia and modem related modules.
>Unfortunately sometimes he refuses to software eject the 
>pcmcia card -> can't unload the modules -> 
>can't hibernate without reboot
>
This is something to track down, and it will probably take more 
information to do it.

>>How is your partition set up?  
>>
>hibernation file on FAT
>
There are 3 active FAT16 types listed in fdisk - 4, 6, and e (Windows 95 
FAT 16), and there are 2 FAT32 types listed - b and c.  Which are you 
using please?

Earlier versions of LILO couldn't boot a partition above the 1024 
cylinder limit - modern ones can.  It might turn out that something like 
this is true with hibernation files - I don't know yet, and there isn't 
a lot of information to go on, so I can't eliminate the possibility. 
 Could you say what your actual partition layout is?  Which partition 
has the hibernation file on it?  What other OS do you boot if any?

fdisk -l /dev/hda will print out your partition table for inclusion into 
a reply.

Thanks,
Bret



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