[ltp] Can't hibernate (SMAPI BIOS error)

[Dong Liu]

Here is my old message I post in this list on this subject:

Get the Hibernation Utility Diskette II for Standalone Boot from

http://www.pc.ibm.com/qtechinfo/MIGR-4PESMK.html


If your win2k partition is a FAT32 partition, you must create another FAT partition
and mark it as active. After using the hibernation utility diskette to create the
hibernation file, you can change back your original active partition.

Dong

Dr. Edmund Weitz wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> It's me again with my daily mail to this list... :)
> 
> I'm trying to put my Thinkpad (T21, 2647-9AG) into hibernation mode,
> but it doesn't work. Fn-F12 shows no reaction while tpctl --hibernate
> (with version 2.5) gives 
> 
>   tpctl: SMAPI BIOS error 0x91 ("system is invalid") -- exiting
> 
> What do I have to do to enable hibernation? (It is enabled - and works
> - in my W2k installation but I suppose this is a file on the NTFS
> partition. I remember that my old Sony Vaio notebook had a special
> hibernation partition.)
> 
> I know that I'm not the first one to send this question to the list
> but I couldn't find an appropriate answer in the archives. (Neither
> there nor on Google.)
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help,
> Edi.
> 
> 
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