Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 16:13:31 -0400
From: "Lawrence Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hibernation partition on a large disk
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From: "Iliano Cervesato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Libretto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 3:50 PM
Subject: Hibernation partition on a large disk
> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 15:42:43 -0400
> From: Iliano Cervesato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Hibernation partition on a large disk
>
> Hi,
>
> I have updated the disk of my Libretto 110CT to Toshiba's new 20Gb HD.
> I left 78Mb empty for hibernation at the end of the disk (although it
> looks like the BIOS already takes hibernation into account when running
> fdisk).
>
> When hibernation kicks in (from Windows), it messes up one of my
> Linux partitions, the one on (Linux's fdisk) units 912 to 1093. I suspect
> that hibernation writes the contents of the RAM around unit 1024 rather
> than at the end of the disk.
As reported here, L100/110 BIOS can only support HDD size up to 8GB. So the
BIOS will put hibernation data to the end of the 8GB location not the end of
your 20GB disk. However, no body knows the exact location of the hibernation
data.
>
> Has anybody encountered this problem? If I am right, what part
> of my HD should I exclude (= keep as an empty partition for the benefit
> of the hibernation software)? Are there other solutions (besides
disabling
> hibernation from within Windows)?
>
>
> Many thanks in advance,
>
> Iliano.
>
>
>
>
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