On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 11:33:54AM +0000, Alexander Clouter wrote: > 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 :) http://falcon.sch.bme.hu/~seasons/linux/swsusp/ ;-)
Hmm, I just noticed that they did a mucho enhanced 2.2.18 version of my 2.2.18pre9 patch :-) No 2.4 version yet, though :-\ (it's not too easy) Andreas Mohr
