[ltp] Hibernation on A30, again *sigh*

[Martin Fluch]

At least on my TP600 the Bios needs an FAT partition. On an NTFS partition
(to which Win2k defaults)  the Bios cannot write.
- Martin


On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Tino Keitel wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I own an A30 without a floppy drive. I have spent 3 days now to get
> suspend-to-disk working, without success. I installed ps2.exe, but to
> my surprise, I can't create an hibernation file anymore (ps2.exe
> hfile), like it could be done on my 765. Then I installed windows 2000
> _just_ to get the ThinkPad Configuration Utilities working. However,
> the option in the Power Management section to create an hibernation
> file was missing. I downloaded the stndalhd.exe, but I had to install
> vmware to use it, since a floppy drive is needed to extract the files.
> When I run phdisk.exe, it first complains about too less disk space,
> (my A30 has 384 MB RAM installed and the partition was just formated
> and contained 580 MB) and when I tried it on a larger partition, the
> hibernation file was created. I rebooted, and my 20 GB linux
> partition was trashed, so I think that DOS can not handle such a bug
> hard drive correctly. I reinstalled Linux and tried lphdisk, without
> success.
>
> So, what should I do to make hibernation work? I have a 580 MB
> primary partition at the very beginning of the hard disk, so I think
> there should be no problems. I saw an hibernation utuility for windows,
> but this does not support W2K, only 98 and NT. Do I relly have to
> install a Win98 _just_ to create the hibernation file?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Tino
>
>