[ltp] Hibernate on X22

[Charlie Hedlin]

The disk is supposed to show you a create partion option AND a create 
file option.  The readmy file says the creat partition option is not 
supported and not to select it.

I also only recieved the create partion option.  The problem is the disk 
will only support PRIMARY fat partions, and I believe it has to be 
tagged active.

This caused me a lot of grief, because I don't like putting my boot 
loader in the MBR (and I wanted to hang onto the IBM MBR that supports 
F11 to the recovery partition, I had my Windows XP installation become 
completely unusable once already).

My systems partition talbe was laid out as follows:  I used partition 
magic to renumber partions and shrink the NTFS partion.

/dev/hda MBR IBM boot loader with F11
/dev/hda1 Windows XP NTFS
/dev/hda2 /boot active (and contained either LILO or grub loader in Boot 
record)
/dev/hda3 Extended partition
/dev/hda4 IBM recovery partition
/dev/hda5 Fat32 for datasharing
/dev/hda6 /
/dev/hda7 /var
/dev/hda8 /usr

As you can see I was in trouble, no room for a primary FAT partion.

I ended up with the following setup, which allowed me all the 
functionality I wanted.  I have only used this new setup with GRUB (and 
no setactive statements).  I have not tested it with LILO.

/dev/hda MBR still IBM loader
/dev/hda1 still XP NTFS
/dev/hda2 FAT 32 datashare partion, 1.2 GB, active.  Grub stage 1 loader 
installed in partition boot block (frightning, worked though).
/dev/hda3 extended
/dev/hda4 IBM recovery
/dev/hda5 /
/dev/hda7 /var
/dev/hda8 /usr

The hibernation boot disk then gave me the option to create a file, and 
I have working hibernation with the file on /dev/hda2

Charlie


Ross Burton wrote:
> David,
> 
> On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 13:19, David Roundy wrote:
> 
>>>Has anyone made a X22 hiberate?
>>>
>>I have an X21, and have it hibernating regularly.  You can create the
>>hibernation file using a DOS program you can download from IBM (I've
>>forgotten the URL but I'm sure you can find it), which creates a floppy
>>which does the actual file creation.  The file does need to reside on a FAT
>>partition, and you should mark this partition as 'bootable' (e.g. with
>>cfdisk) before booting from the floppy.
>>If you have too much trouble finding the ibm program, let me know and I'll
>>look for it in my old emails.
>>
> 
> I found a floppy disk image on IBMs web site for hibernating, but it
> wants to create a hibernation _partition_ instead of a file.  Is this
> the same program you used?  If not, could you have a quick hunt for it?
> 
> Regards,
> Ross
> 



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