[ltp] Success: Hibernation

Edi Weitz linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
14 May 2002 19:43:26 +0200


"Robert Hollis" <vdrlholl@us.ibm.com> writes:

> Looks more like it has to be a primary partition (not neccessarily
> the first primary tho').
>
> Eric Wick <eric.wick@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > I suggest the place of the partition isn't interesting for the
> > bios as it's into the bios reachable area of the disk.
> >
> >    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> > /dev/hda1   *         1       265   2003368+  83  Linux
> > /dev/hda2           266       662   3001320    5  Extended
> > /dev/hda5           266       469   1542208+  83  Linux
> > /dev/hda6           470       605   1028128+  83  Linux
> > /dev/hda7           606       623    136048+  82  Linux swap
> > /dev/hda8           624       662    294808+   6  FAT16

But hibernation worked for Eric with the partition scheme above and
/dev/hda8 is not a primary partition.

(Hmm, of course it could also be the case that the way hibernation is
handled by the BIOS has changed from older TP models to the newer T2*
ones.)

Edi.


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