[ltp] Suspend, hibernate and the 600E

Charles E Taylor IV linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 5 Dec 2003 09:24:05 -0500


On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 14:20:41 +0100
Andr=E9 Wyrwa <a.wyrwa@gmx.de> wrote:

> > > I was just asking out of curiosity because people all the time tell
> > > that you can do things with PS2.EXE which you can't with tpctl (and
> > > other tools) which i still wonder what they are.
> >=20
> > Is there a way to create/set up a hibernation file with tpctl?

> No, but there's tphdisk (which I didn't try myself so far since I didn't
> feel like digging into the hibernation stuff so far).

If I understand correctly, that won't help you on a 600-series Thinkpads
because they have the wrong kind of BIOS.

I *think* tphdisk works on my 240X and 570E, but it was just easier for me
to download IBM's bootable hibernation diskette image for those systems.
:)

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