> On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 10:47:36AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > > > > > Another feature I miss is suspend-to-disk. My laptop has a replaced hard > > > disk, and obviously the BIOS doesn't support the suspend feature with this > > > disk (it doesn't work with Win95 or DOS either).
Have you tried a FAT filesystem that fits within bootable BIOS limits? I know that MSwin's usual behavior is to have the whole drive space as one hugemungus C: - likely to give it indigestion, if you just bought an 18 Gb drive and gave each OS 9 Gb or something like that. > > Most laptops require a special section of the harddrive set aside for > > suspend. This usually is seen as a partition between 50 and 150 mb in size > > with an odd type and often a special format. On my VAIO it expects to be > > at a certain sector. The only way to recreate it is to run your windows > > recovery cd on the drive, which will likely fail if you changed the drive > > the size. At least this is what I have seen. > > Indeed: Acer delivers a DOS based utility to (re)create this file in a DOS > partition, but this utility fails to work with the new disk, and I was told > that this is a known problem with unsupported disks (unsupported by the BIOS > that is), therefore I thought about swsusp. > > Gregor Well, the above is worth a shot. * Heather
