[ltp] Linux (Red Hat 9.0) on T40p (2373-G1G to be exact)

[Frank Schaeckermann]

Steve,
I have no way of putting the image on the net somewhere - yet. But I'll 
send it to you via e-mail. What I did was to create a partition by hand 
giving it the type 'a0' (IBM Thinkpad Hibernation Partition) BEFORE I 
booted the CD-ROM. Then a menu came up with choices like

1. Create New Hibernation Partition
2. Re-Initialize Existing Hibernation Partition
3. Reboot

and I chose 2. After a few minutes (My partition is pretty big since I 
have 1.5GB of memory and 64MB Video RAM in the machine) the menu came 
back and I chose 3 (after removing the CD *wink*). Linux booted without 
problems and now Fn-F12 works like a charm! I am using APM so - see my 
kernel-config file posted before. Apparently ACPI is not up to the job 
yet. Also I figured, that the machine's BIOS will still now best how to 
send it into hibernation...

The bootable CD-image is on it's way. By the way - I am using a 
re-writable CD to create bootable images *grin* That way I can fool 
around until I got it right without wasting loads of media... even 
though with ISOLINUX and MEMDISK it worked pretty well and without too 
many tries.

Steve Krulewitz shooz-at-myrealbox.com |Linux on ThinkPads| wrote:
> Frank --
> 
> 
>>If you want, I can send you the image of the bootable CD I created to
>>run the utility without having a floppy drive.
> 
> 
> If you could make this available I would appreciate it -- I can't tell you
> how many CDs I burned through the last time I tried to make a bootable CD.
> 
> So you're saying that the BIOS's suspend to disk works with Linux and you
> can tell it which partition you want to use (or tell it where to create a
> partition for it in unpartitioned space?)   I have a 2GB FAT partition at
> the end of my drive that I could shrink to make room for this... would this
> work?
> 
> cheers,
> -stvee
>