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

[Frank Schaeckermann]

Andrew,
I have my partition at the END of a 80GB drive... therefore the 1024 
cylinder limit shouldn't apply here... Are you sure you made the 
partition big enough? Memory+Video RAM+Overhead? Mine is almost 2.2GB 
since the T40p potentially has 2GB of memory - even though right now I 
only have 1.5GB installed - and 64MB Video-Ram. I figured 136MB overhead 
should be plenty if I ever install more memory. Try to delete the 'a0' 
partition (thus making place in the partition table) maybe shrink your 
Windows partition some more to make sure there is enough space on the 
disk as well, re-boot the CD and try to let it create the partition.

Other than that I wouldn't know either...

Frank

Andrew Biggadike andrew-at-biggadike.org |Linux on ThinkPads| wrote:
> Frank,
> 
> I shrank a partition near the end of my disk (about 35 gigs in) and
> created a type 'a0' filesystem.  When I boot off the CD I don't get a
> menu choice to re-initialize a hibernation partition.. just create a new
> partition and create a file.  Choosing create a partition gives an error
> that there are no free partition entries in the partition table.
> 
> Any ideas?  Is it possible that this program can't see that far into the
> disk and I need to stay below the 1024th cylinder?  I can't find much
> documentation out there on this..
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andrew
> 
> On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 04:01, Frank Schaeckermann wrote:
> 
>>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
>>>