Re: IBM Thinkpad
On Nov 2, m.nine.six (m.nine.six@freesurf.ch) wrote:
> "Neil L. Roeth" wrote:
> >
> > On Nov 2, Maurice Verhagen (maurice@verhagen.org) wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I have a IBM Thinkpad 390E which I want to use for Debian. Although my
> > > question at the moment is, the IBM uses some sort of 'hibernation'
> > > partition. What should I do with this? Can I savely remove this or is it
> > > save to keep it anyway. And what can I do when the partition accidentely
> > > gets lost?
> >
> > That is probably for a suspend to disk feature. My Vaio can do that,
> > too, as well as suspend to RAM. Suspend to disk takes longer, but
> > uses much less power. Since this is controlled by the BIOS, it is
> > independent of the operating system, so it should work under Linux.
> > I'd keep it, but if you do lose it, you can probably restore it (if
> > your notebook uses the Phoenix BIOS). I had to restore mine with the
> > lphdisk utility.
>
> but you should setup the hibernation file before installing the system.
> that's the fault that i made. now i can't setup hibernation without
> reinstalling and deleting everything on my hd. so i don't use it.
I blew away my hibernate partition when I installed Linux, too, but I
had swap and /home on separate partitions (hda3 and hda4), so what I
did was make a backup of /home, then repartitioned just those two
partitions into one extended partition and one primary partition, with
cfdisk. The primary partition was at the end, and I made it into a
hibernate partition with lphdisk
(http://www.procyon.com/~pda/lphdisk/). I set up two logical
partitions (hda5 and hda6) in the extended partition, made hda5 swap,
restored /home to hda6, and that was it! My / and /usr were
completely unaffected. (But back them up anyway, since a small error
with cfdisk can wipe out a partition instantly.
You should read up on mke2fs, mkswap, lphdisk, and remember that
you'll need to change fstab. The lphdisk docs are a little ambiguous
on whether the partition can be something other than hda4, but the
code is not - it has to be hda4. lphdisk is a Linux replacement for
the DOS phdisk.exe utility; you could use that, too, if you feel like
booting DOS. But it apparently has bugs.
I haven't rebooted in weeks, I just use suspend to disk all the time.
One added advantage on my Vaio is that suspend to RAM stops my network
card from working, suspend to disk does not.
--
Neil L. Roeth
neil-at-occamsrazor.net
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