[ltp] T21 hibernation

Tino Keitel linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Fri, 19 Jul 2002 08:27:55 +0200


On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 08:45:51 +1200, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote:
> Werner Horbelt wrote:
> 
> > 
> >On Tuesday 16 July 2002 23:49, you wrote:
> >
> >>When I boot to W$k to defrag the disk, to try to arrange the
> >>contiguous space - it auto-reinstalls the hberfil.sys and takes up
> >>all the room again (see remark above).
> >>
> >
> >I guess you did not disable hibernation in W$k.
> >I thought there was some configuration option to do that
> >in Win's settings, independent from the Thinkpad Configuration 
> >utility and not hard to find. Perhaps that prevents W$k once 
> >and forever to recreate the file.
> >
> No, I didn't look independently of what I found in the Configuration 
> utility.  For now, I haven't decided if I am willing to disable 
> hibernation in W$k - I'll watch my usage patterns and let that decide. 
>  Separately from that, the question of getting W$k to use the same 
> hibernation file is still interesting, but not a high priority right now.

Maybe there is a way to tell W2k to use the BIOS hibernation function
instead of the builtin hibernation funtion.

...

> Once I've got that, I can consider a hibernation FAQ, but I can't 
> guarantee anything now (it is interesting).  For now, I'll publish my 
> findings <grin> here  so at least people can find them via search engines.

Do you know about http://www.linux-thinkpad.org/FAQ/cache/1.html? You
could add your stuff there.

Regards,
Tino

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