[ltp] T40 won't awake -- HPA problem

Daniel Skorka linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 14 Feb 2006 14:34:09 +0100


On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 10:55:56AM +0000, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
>     Matthew Garrett figured out what this is: on boot Linux disables the
>     Host Protected Area of my harddrive, so some of my partitions are in
>     the HPA area. On sleep/resume, the BIOS turns HPA back on (as the
>     BIOS has it set to on), and suddenly /home is no longer accessible.

Simple fix: Disable the HPA in the BIOS.

Daniel