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

[Markus Alt]

Vivek wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Markus Alt wrote:
> 
> > Another idea: Do the both of you use any boot manager other than LILO?
> > I've read once that e.g. the IBM (OS/2) boot manager could cause
> > problems with hibernation, but IIRC this was only with resuming a
> > hibernated machine.
> 
> Woohoo! Success! Ok - I finally got my A20p to hibernate - I zapped the
> partition, recreated it with mkfs.msdos -F 16, set the partition type
> to 06 (FAT 16) and flagged it as bootable [didn't work as a hidden
> partition type], Booted off the phdisk floppy, and selected 'Create file',
> And this time hibernate worked.
> 
> I'm not sure what went wrong before, but it only ever gave me the choice of
> creating a partition, not a file.

Really strange. My hibernation partition is marked as hidden:

root@altmark: root (9) # fdisk -l /dev/hda | grep hda2
/dev/hda2           256       327    544320   16  Hidden FAT16

But IIRC, it was not hidden when I created the hibernation file on it.
OTOH, I didn't set it to hidden explicitly afterwards ... Does this
happen automagically?

Markus, who is kind of confused

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

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