On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Stephen Turner wrote: > > Having partitioned my disk (Partition Magic 5.0) and turned my laptop > (Packard Bell EasyLite FX500) into a dual boot machine (Windows 98SE / > Debian Potato), I get the following error message on booting up: > > "Invalid HIBERNATION Partition.. run HDPREPEZ or AMI Save to File Utility" > > Well, I ran HDPREPEZ as suggested, and it seemed to cure it, but only until > I booted Linux again, whereupon the message reappeared the following time I > booted up. > > So, how should I fix it permanently? Do I need to repartition, reserving > a partition for the hibernation stuff (I see this is an option in > HDPREPEZ.CFG). Or is there an easier way? > Whenever I use partition magic and start playing around with the number of partitions I have on the harddisk it really begins to confuse linux, also it may be playing havoc with your BIOS.
You may find that linux is trying to initialise the wrong partition and the problem begins there. Everytime I play with my partitions I have to run through the process of running lilo and also make sure all references in /etc/fstab and still correct. Easily done by flicking through the output of the linux version of fdisk. For a proper fix I recommend using partition magic to REMOVE the actual hibernate partition, if you have one otherwise remember to leave space for it (usually your make it the size of your memory on the laptop and add about 4Mb) and make sure its at the END of you harddisk) and then once you are happy with your partition table run HDPREPEZ and see if that fixes the problem. hope this helps Alex -- ** ((__)) Alexander "Jim diGriz" "Hubenko" Clouter \\ ((oo)) \\------\\// e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || || |||----||| ~~~ ~~~ equip : 300Mhz Celeron Laptop running Cow during an Debian Woody Linux Earthquake
