Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 10:32:45
From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re Hibernation
Michael,
Remember that the hibernation partition is no such thing...there's no
partition marked off on the partition table. It's just that the space
allocated to it is left available. If the disk was formatted from dos or
windows *in* the machine, then the hibernation space is there. You just
can't see it. (Of course, if it was partitioned by something that doesn't
use the bios, e.g. linux fdisk and friends, all bets are off...)
The lib draws power both when hibernating and when switched off - battery
will last a week or two. It's switched off in both cases, it's just that
under hibernation the internal state of the processor and all the memory is
saved to the disk - and restored on switch on. This is faster than a normal
boot as it doesn't go through all the rigmarole of identifying the hardware,
loading all the drivers etc, but some hardware complains under w95 if e.g.
it's there when you hibernate but not when you wake up. I haven't had any
problems with linux though.
You can also put the machine into 'suspend' where the processor is turned
off along with the screen and discs, but the memory is kept alive. The
batteries will only last a few hours but the wakeup is almost instant.
Neil
p.s. side question: yes, provided the bios or something else knows how to
reinitialise all the hardware. I've seen a couple that do that...but trust
me: <linux hype=on>if you're gonna take your life in your hands and run
windows, you probably want to restart it on fairly regular basis.</linux
hype>
From: "Michael Hodish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: hibernation
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 21:42:19 -0800
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 00:12:53 -0500
From: "Michael Hodish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: hibernation
I have a lib 70 that had win 98 se installed on it, plus the lib goodies
from rescue cd, but does not have the hibernation partition set up. Is
there
a way to add it, perhaps with partition magic, or something. And, to be
clear, when hibernating, the system draws power, right? But gives a much
quicker restart than actually booting, right?
Side question... can this methodology be applied to any computer... my
desktop, say?
Thanks, Mike Hodish
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Michael,
Remember that the hibernation partition is no such thing...there's no
partition marked off on the partition table. It's just that the space
allocated to it is left available. If the disk was formatted from dos or
windows *in* the machine, then the hibernation space is there. You just
can't see it. (Of course, if it was partitioned by something that doesn't
use the bios, e.g. linux fdisk and friends, all bets are off...)
The lib draws power both when hibernating and when switched off - battery
will last a week or two. It's switched off in both cases, it's just that
under hibernation the internal state of the processor and all the memory is
saved to the disk - and restored on switch on. This is faster than a normal
boot as it doesn't go through all the rigmarole of identifying the hardware,
loading all the drivers etc, but some hardware complains under w95 if e.g.
it's there when you hibernate but not when you wake up. I haven't had any
problems with linux though.
You can also put the machine into 'suspend' where the processor is turned
off along with the screen and discs, but the memory is kept alive. The
batteries will only last a few hours but the wakeup is almost instant.
Neil
p.s. side question: yes, provided the bios or something else knows how to
reinitialise all the hardware. I've seen a couple that do that...but trust
me: <linux hype=on>if you're gonna take your life in your hands and run
windows, you probably want to restart it on fairly regular basis.</linux
hype>
>From: "Michael Hodish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: hibernation
>Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 21:42:19 -0800
>
>Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 00:12:53 -0500
>From: "Michael Hodish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: hibernation
>
>I have a lib 70 that had win 98 se installed on it, plus the lib goodies
>from rescue cd, but does not have the hibernation partition set up. Is
>there
>a way to add it, perhaps with partition magic, or something. And, to be
>clear, when hibernating, the system draws power, right? But gives a much
>quicker restart than actually booting, right?
>
>Side question... can this methodology be applied to any computer... my
>desktop, say?
>
>Thanks, Mike Hodish
>
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