[ltp] Hibernation on A30, again *sigh*

[Tino Keitel]

On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 10:59:32 +0100, Martin Fluch wrote:
> At least on my TP600 the Bios needs an FAT partition. On an NTFS partition
> (to which Win2k defaults)  the Bios cannot write.
> - Martin

It _is_ a fat partition. The W2k is on another partition.

> 
> 
> 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
> >
> >
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