On Oct 9, Heather ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hello! > > > > In order to use the save to disk feature you must have a special partition > > that the BIOS saves the RAM to. If you erased this partition then, well it > > won't work... Cfdisk calls my save to disk partition "IBM Thinkpad > > hibernation" and it is roughly of the same size as the RAM memory. Try > > consulting your manual if you like to get this working, it is however > > probably gonna be quite some work since you need to make a new partition > > that I think must be located as the first one on the disk and that screws > > up a number of things like lilo, fstab etc, not to mention the fact that > > you have to move your linux partition (I suppose?). > > > > /Joel Kjellgren > > 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.)
The lphdisk docs say it "should be" a primary partition. Do you know if it works on a logical partition? -- Neil L. Roeth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
