On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 09:08:11AM -0700, Heather wrote: > If it is a typical Phoenix BIOS, raw partitions for hibernate can be > anywhere on the disk. This isn't just "known" this is tested, as I've > got a quite happy machine with a partition smack in the middle. (I was > moving it around messing with sizes of other things.)
I just installed Debian on my laptop so I've been following this discussion with a great deal of interest. I have the opposite problem from everyone else -- suspend and hibernate work fine, despite the fact that linux reports apm: BIOS not found when booting. The hard drive also shuts down after a few minutes of idleness, even though hdparm isn't installed. Some particulars on my box: - Compaq Presario 1700 model 17XL260 - PhoenixBIOS 4.0 Release 6.0.C 03 - 00 - Debian Potato - Win98 on hda1 I don't have any idea where the bios is saving its restore information when it hibernates. There wasn't a separate hibernation partition. I suppose it must be saving to a file somewhere but I don't know where. My problem is that, since the kernel doesn't recognize my APM bios, I can't tell how much battery life I have left. Guess you can't have everything :-). Give a choice, I'd probably give up hibernation if I could monitor the battery. It doesn't take too long to boot up. Walt
