Subject: Re: Hibernation file on Thinkpad 600X
vitus@ice.ru
Date: Wed Dec 13 2000 - 13:02:28 GMT+1
Maik Musall <Maik.Musall@coi.de> wrote:
> Hello,
> I have an IBM Thinkpad 600X, currently configured as dual boot
> system with Windows 2000 and Linux (while I'm booting Win2k
> usually inside a vmware session in Linux).
> Suspend works, while hibernation does not. I understand that
It seems to me, that hibernation is not supported at all on Linux.
All my attempts to use it on Thinkpad 755Cs result in
system crash and reboot upon resuming from hibernation.
> the BIOS needs a hibernation file somewhere. As I'm missing
> the documentation for the hardware, I'm not sure how to
> configure it. With my NTFS, ext2 and reiserfs partitions,
> it seems that I have to create a new fat16 partition with
> a 384MB (size of RAM) hibernation file?
> Can I create this partition anywhere on the disk or must it
> reside at the beginning of it? Can I create the hibernation
> file with tptcl or must I use ps2.exe (which I don't have)?
You must use ps2.exe. If you don't have it, download it from
IBM site. Author of tpctl said "You'll need fat16 partition anyway,
so why not install minimal DOS and PS2.exe on it?"
May be it is not true anymore, but I've not seen latest tpctl (I use
0.8.5 which come with Debian 2.2)
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