[ltp] T20, Linux, and Hibernate

[Shinichi Sakata]

Brandon,

I used to use T20 with an APM-enabled kernel, and hibernation
beautifully worked for me. What I did, I think, was to prepare a large
enough FAT 16 partition and used phdisk to create the save2dsk.bin
file in it. 

Good luck,

  Shinichi

From: Brandon Beck <bbeck@cryptonet.org>
Subject: [ltp] T20, Linux, and Hibernate
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 01:43:30 -0500

> T20, Linux, and Hibernate
> 
> So, Whats the deal? Is it possible?
> 
> I've scoured the big bad interweb and found that some people have gotten 
> it to work. I even found some 'instructions' on how to do it. Most of 
> these assumed people had the original ibm harddrive layout intact, Who 
> does that? geez.
> 
> So does anyone have any help to offer for someone who has a small fat32 
> partition, and the rest for linux.
> 
> My partition table is currently wacky because of all the things i've 
> tried to do to get it working
> 
>     Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1   *        88       745   4974448+  1b  Hidden Win95 FAT32
> /dev/hda2           746      1559   6153840    f  Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/hda3             1        87    657688+  a0  IBM Thinkpad hibernation
> /dev/hda5           746       752     52888+  83  Linux
> /dev/hda6           753       819    506488+  82  Linux swap
> /dev/hda7           820      1559   5594368+  83  Linux
> 
> I've tried using the utility from ibms website, I didn't get anywhere 
> with it. I think I've tried everything short of swsusp, which I am wary 
> of doing for how cumbersome it seems.
> 
> But, I'm thinking about redoing this system anyway. so doing everything 
> is not an issue of that must be done.
> 
> I'm tired of having to reboot completely to undock from the docking station.
> 
> If anyone has any suggestions or leads to where I could find what I need 
> I'd much appreciate the assistance
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