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

[Markus Alt]

"Dr. Edmund Weitz" wrote:
> 
> 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?
> 

1. Is your FAT partition a primary partition? Should be if you made it
active, just want to double-check.

2. If you temporarily mount it (e.g. via "mount -t vfat /dev/hda<n>
/mnt"),
do you see a file named "save2dsk.bin" in there which is slightly bigger
than your RAM + Video RAM?

3. When booting from the diskette, did you "just" create the hibernation
file and *not* choose the option "Create Partition"?

4. Does suspend work (<Fn><F4> and/or "tpctl --suspend")?

Markus

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Markus Alt
IBM Lab Boeblingen, Germany
altmark@de.ibm.com

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