someone in a far galaxy once said:
> 4. Is there anyone out there that has installed Debian on an Inspiron
> 4150? What did you do about this hibernate partition that I hear
> people talking about?
while five of the six dell laptops that i support are very happy with
the so-called suspend-to-disk partition (hibernate partition), the
sixth is acting up.
it's a latitude C610 which, according to Dell, supports up to 1 Gb of
RAM. this particular one actually contains 1 Gb of RAM. when i try to
initialize the s2d partition, dell's very own tool (the latest
version) complains that it does not support systems with more than 768
Mb or RAM.
dell's answer: install windoze 2000. i didn't expect the answer to be
otherwise.
so this is just a warning. even though i am on the side of the happy
and satisfied dell users, this is ridiculous.
anyone want to help reverse engineer dell's s2d partitions so that we
can create linux tool that is capable of managing them from within
linux (i don't see why you couldn't do this on a running system).
btw: for all that don't have suspend-to-disk capabilities, there is
the swsusp patch[1], although 2.4.10 seems to be the last 2.4.x kernel
that's included.
1. http://falcon.sch.bme.hu/~seasons/linux/swsusp.html
have people experimented with this patch?
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