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

[Dr. Edmund Weitz]

Markus Alt <altmark@de.ibm.com> writes:

> 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

I though I had it when I read this!!! (I thought...)

When I did the same with my hard disk I got

root@bird:/home/edi > fdisk -l /dev/hda | grep hda3
/dev/hda3          4094      4134    309960    e  Win95 FAT16 (LBA)

Looks like PartitionMagic has another concept of "FAT16". (To be
honest, up until now I didn't know there were so many different FAT
partition types.)

Anyway, I followed Vivek's procedure and used fdisk to delete the
partition and create a new one (primary partition #3 on /dev/hda3),
then I marked it as bootable and changed its partition type to 6 (for
FAT16). The next step was to use mkfs.msdos -F 16 /dev/hda3 to create
a filesystem on this partition.

Finally, I rebooted from the floppy disk. (Markus - yes, it was
created from the stndalhd.exe file that you referred to.) It gave me
the option to create a hibernation file and I did it. I rebooted to
Linux and still cannot hibernate!!!! 

I toggled the bootable flag, made the partition hidden - nothing
helped. I'm still where I was a couple of days ago (only a few dozen
reboots more). FYI here is my setup. Maybe one of you can see
something that I don't see:

root@bird:/home/edi > fdisk -l /dev/hda

Disk /dev/hda: 240 heads, 63 sectors, 4134 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *         1      2025  15308968+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2          2026      4093  15634080    f  Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda3          4094      4134    309960    6  FAT16
/dev/hda5          2026      2060    264568+  82  Linux swap
/dev/hda6          2061      4093  15369448+  83  Linux

root@bird:/home/edi > mount -t vfat /dev/hda3 /mnt
root@bird:/home/edi > ls -l /mnt
total 271792
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root     278315008 Aug 25 17:37 save2dsk.bin


One last straw: When the hibernation floppy asked for the size of my
hibernation file I chose the default value (see above) which I think
should be correct for 256MB RAM plus the Savage card. Did you guys
choose another size?

Thanks,
Edi.



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