Re: Suspend to disk.
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Joel Kjellgren wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> In order to use the save to disk feature you must have a special partition
> that the BIOS saves the RAM to. If you erased this partition then, well it
> won't work... Cfdisk calls my save to disk partition "IBM Thinkpad
> hibernation" and it is roughly of the same size as the RAM memory. Try
> consulting your manual if you like to get this working, it is however
> probably gonna be quite some work since you need to make a new partition
> that I think must be located as the first one on the disk and that screws
> up a number of things like lilo, fstab etc, not to mention the fact that
> you have to move your linux partition (I suppose?).
On my system it's the last partition on the disk. You may have to format
it with a magic DOS utility - on my current system it's PHDISK.EXE. I've
seen PHDISK programs shipped with various vendors' laptops, but from
Dell's support pages, it seems that RMS2D.EXE and MKS2D.EXE are the
programs you want.
http://support.dell.com/us/en/filelib/download/index.asp?fileid=R19833
or
http://support.dell.com/us/en/filelib/download/index.asp?fileid=R8009
may be what you need. You'll have to make a bootable DOS floppy to run
MKS2D.EXE from.
You should probably back up anything important before you run
MKS2D.EXE. There's a good chance that it will blow your partitions away.
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