[ltp] T40 won't awake -- HPA problem

Rory Campbell-Lange linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 15 Feb 2006 11:10:48 +0000


On 14/02/06, Daniel Skorka (daniel.skorka@stud.uni-karlsruhe.de) wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 10:55:56AM +0000, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
> >     Matthew Garrett figured out what this is: on boot Linux disables the
> >     Host Protected Area of my harddrive, so some of my partitions are in
> >     the HPA area. On sleep/resume, the BIOS turns HPA back on (as the
> >     BIOS has it set to on), and suddenly /home is no longer accessible.
> 
> Simple fix: Disable the HPA in the BIOS.

Um yes. That worked. Many thanks, Daniel.

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