Re: Suspend to disk.

["Neil L. Roeth" <neil@occamsrazor.net>]

On Oct 12, Heather (star@starshine.org) wrote:
 > >  > > 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?).
 > >  > > 
 > >  > > /Joel Kjellgren
 > >  > 
 > >  > If it is a typical Phoenix BIOS, raw partitions for hibernate can be 
 > >  > anywhere on the disk.  This isn't just "known" this is tested, as I've
 > >  > got a quite happy machine with a partition smack in the middle. (I was 
 > >  > moving it around messing with sizes of other things.)
 > > 
 > > The lphdisk docs say it "should be" a primary partition.  Do you know
 > > if it works on a logical partition?
 > 
 > No, I don't know - I didn't try it that way.  Sorry.
 > 
 > * Heather Stern * star@ many places...

Thanks.  I looked at the lphdisk code and it has hda4 hard coded in
it, so the docs are ambiguous but the code is not!  I repartitioned my
disk and the suspending works like a charm.

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Neil L. Roeth
neil@occamsrazor.net