[ltp] X31 - where to hibernate?

[Nils Ole Tippenhauer]

Bret Comstock Waldow wrote:

>I don't know if your system is like mine...
>
>I have a T21, working well generally with Libranet (Debian).  It
>Suspends and Hibernates more or less reliably (enough Suspends and the
>framebuffer console display goes bad, but I haven't chased it down yet).
>
>Hibernate is a BIOS function on this machine, and it requires a FAT
>filesystem to hibernate to.  Mine is FAT32, and I don't remember if
>that's a requirement, or if just FAT will do.  But it won't hibernate to
>ext? or any other standard Linux filesystems that I know of.
>
>I've noted vague references to people using the same partition for both
>swap and hibernate.  In the distant past, I've used a scheme that shared
>the swap partition between Linux and Windows.  When activating it for
>Windows, it was only necessary to copy in an image that overwrote the
>beginning of the partition to be enough to fool Windows into using it -
>I don't remember if it was formatted FAT completely.  Perhaps zeroing
>the partition might be enough?
>
>On the Linux on Laptops site, there is a link to a project that allows
>systems that don't hibernate to hibernate anyway, handled by Linux.  I
>don't need it and haven't looked into it, so have no comment beyond
>that.
>
>Regards,
>Bret
>
>On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 08:58, Toens Bueker wrote:
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>
>>Hi *,
>>
>>probably you'll remember, that my X31 has a ntfs partition
>>with XP and shall get an additional Linux installation.
>>
>>I understand, that resizing the ntfs partition with
>>ntfsresize and qtparted should not be a problem
>>(especially not for the hidden parts, which are needed to
>>restore XP) as long the hidden partition(s) are not
>>visible. 
>>
>>Now the second question: how do I have to partition the
>>new "Linux-area", if I want to use hibernation?
>>
>>Where does XP hibernate to at the moment? Do I need a
>>special hibernation partition for Linux? Would have been
>>nice, if Linux and XP could have shared their hibernation
>>areas ...
>>
>>by
>>Töns
>>-- 
>>There is no safe distance.
>>    
>>
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>
Hi
try this:
http://jcs.org/laptops/ described in the section about the x40
Its basically a type a0 partition right at the front of your harddisk. 
bios detexts it and everything works.
I did like he told an now my notebook hibernates quite nice

Ole