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Re: hibernation



No, but I think what you call 'hibernation' is what I meant by 'sleeping'
in my post about power management. Has anyone got this to work?
Will it work on a regular machine, ie not a laptop?
-chris

On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Aaron Solochek wrote:

> I just bought a laptop (dell inspiron 5000) and put potato on it.   I've
> been struggling with getting hibernation to work.  I created the
> hibernation partition with the little dos utility that came with the
> machine, but still no dice.  The bios are set to "suspend-to-disk" so I
> had sort of hoped that just doing Fn-Suspend would save the ram to disk
> and shut off.  This is not the case, the machine just does a lowpower
> suspend.  Windows has a hibernate option, which does what you would
> suspect, saves the ram and shuts off.
> 
> I just wanted to know if anyone has had any luck with this sort of
> thing, or has any suggestions.  Thanks.
> 
> -Aaron Solochek
>  leko@cmu.edu
> 
> 
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