Hi. Here I am with my original topic :)
I installed and activated the apm stuff on my Inspiron 5000 and anything worked well 'out of the box' ! :-) Now i created a hibernation partition type A0 with lphdisk. Since i thought of maximum speed writing on the outermost rim of disk, in the beginning had provided a 549 MB hda1 for hibernation. Yet with only 128 MB Ram installed. I toggled 'save to disk' in the BIOS and later tried 'Fn Q' - hurra, it works ! But when waking the machine up again, it says, to get to work hibernation you have to reboot again or to insert the original harddrive !? I guess it didn't found the hda1 ? Rebooting didn't work, also. Fortunateley there was no linux-partition destroyed, only the grub MBR had gone. I could chroot into the original filesystem from an installer-ramdisk and reinstall it. Now, it would be fine to tell the BIOS not to overwrite the mbr ! Or am i have to put the hib partition elsewhere ? However, that would sadly confuse my well designed partition layout. Anybody's got any hint to me ? -- micha.
