On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Heather wrote: > > It also needs the correct preamble - that's what lphdisk (or in the case > of "people who couldn't understand the existance of anything but FAT > partitions" that initial floppy that they probably threw out) is for. > > [snip] > > (If you desperately need a preamble because lphdisk isn't doing something > you need, contact me privately. My hubby has a 512Mb machine with decent > video memory, of the applicable type, and if that isn't big enough we're > jealous ;D ) > I didn't recommend lphdisk as its for phoenix bioses. You probably will find that the thinkpad bios will just ignore a lphdisk formated partition. I was running on the complete off chance that the BIOS would "notice" the partition and do something about it. Although 99% *unlikely* its always worth a try when times get desperate.
As an alternative (I just thought of) you could use the kernel patch to do hibernation. I can't remember the URL but if you cannot find it I'll dig it out :) Alex
