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

Dr. Edmund Weitz linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
22 Aug 2001 20:25:06 +0200


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Daishi Harada <daishi@CS.Berkeley.EDU> writes:

> > 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.
> 
> Does the FAT partition have to be a primary partition?
> Thanks,
> d
> 
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Tod Harter <tharter@rhombus.net> writes:

> I just installed Mandrake 8.0 on my Thinkpad A20p
> 
> Its not quite as up to date as you are, KDE 2.1.1 and XFree86 4.0.3, but man 
> is it nice. This distro has a VERY much improved setup, management tools, 
> stability, etc vs any other desktop based distribution, and for KDE users its 
> great because Mandrake gives you are very well built KDE install and 
> configuration, unlike Red Hat where KDE is an afterthought. 
> 
> So for those wanting to get a good X environment on their thinkpad, this 
> seems to be a good way to go. The ONLY bug I ran into so far was the 
> trackpoint not being recognized due to kernel bug in 2.4.3 kernel. I just 
> installed a stock 2.4.9 kernel with no trouble, and this is a well documented 
> bug. Mandrake will let you go with a 2.2 series kernel if you aren't into 
> building your own ;o). 
> 
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