Re: Crash on suspend

[John Jeffers <jjef@inforamp.net>]

Hi

Compaq did their own bios for everything.  If memory serves they were 
around before phoenix.  My Compaq 7800 has a hiber8.dat that it backs up to 
in windows / dos.  The bios understands fat32 natively.  Probably you can 
fool it into puting the file somewhere else (mine does since I have a 20gig 
hd 1/2 w98se 1/2 Linux development) it nicely puts the file in the fat32 
partion but then starts execution there.  The penguin's trapped inside the 
hiber8.dat file of course get promptly terminated and W98SE does it's bad 
shutdown stuff.  You get to see the penguin's remains washed out of your 
ext2 file system the next time you boot.  Poor penguins ;)

Cheers John



> > P.S.: It does not use a Phoenix BIOS, I think -- it uses a BIOS made
> > by Compaq (or is this Compaq BIOS a Phoenix BIOS with some "make up"?)
> >
> well (l)phdisk is going to be completely useless then.  Unless of course
> Compaq (like lots of other manufacturers) bought the source code, altered
> it for themselves and then bundled it off.
>
> What you need to do is go to the Compaq website and download any useful
> *DOS* drivers for your laptop, howfully in that lot will be a hibernate
> partition making tool.  However bear in mind that some laptops (probably
> yours too) won't use a hiberation partition but instead create a file on a
> DOS partition.
>
> happy searching
>
> Alex
>
>
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