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

[Daishi Harada]

I also just followed the advice given on this list, but it appears to
have worked for me. It took a couple of tries, however, because I
initially tried selecting the "Make hibernation partition" option as
opposed to the file option. This appears to not work w/ Linux. Also,
as far as I can tell W2k will still bypass the BIOS hibernation
process and do its own thing (creating C:\hiberfil.sys even though
I have hibernation disabled - it automatically reenables it for me
when I press Fn-F12.) I haven't installed tpctl so I can't say what
that would output for me.

Just as a sanity check: did you format the new FAT partition under W2k 
before using IBM's hibernation util floppy?

d

From: edi@agharta.de (Dr. Edmund Weitz)
Subject: Re: [ltp] Can't hibernate (SMAPI BIOS error)
Date: 23 Aug 2001 01:48:36 +0200

> OK, I tried it: Disabled hibernation support in W2k completely,
> created an empty FAT partition big enough for my system, temporarily
> made the new partition the active one, used the IBM provided bootable
> floppy to create a partition file on this partition. Hibernation now
> works again under Wintendo, but it still doesn't work with Linux. As
> before, Fn-F12 does nothing, tpctl --hibernate reports
> 
>   tpctl: SMAPI BIOS error 0x91 ("system is invalid") -- exiting
> 
> Any other recommendations?
> 
> Thanks to all who have tried to help so far,
> Edi.
> 
> 
> 
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