RE: [TPX20] RedHat 6.2: Is there a "hibernate" partition? How to recreate it?

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From: Corey Kosak (kosak_at_cs.cmu.edu)
Date: Fri Apr 20 2001 - 18:07:59 EDT


I give up!!!

Here is what I tried (spoiler: both plans FAILED).

PLAN A:

  1. Had a 2G FAT32 partition (type 0x0b) in primary partition 1.

  2. Blew away what was there before, and put a file system on it
     using the Linux utility mkdosfs

  3. Put a 256M all-zero file called PM_HIBER.BIN on it with
     head --bytes 256000000 < /dev/zero > /mnt/msdos/PM_HIBER.BIN

  4. shutdown and powercycled the system (superstitious reasons)

  After linux came up, I pressed Fn-F12. All I got was a double-beep
  from the speaker.

PLAN B:
  Following the instructions I found here:
  http://www.procyon.com/~pda/lphdisk/

  I did the following things:

    1. made a hibernate partition (partition type 0xA0 -- which has
       the tempting name IBM Thinkpad hibernate) as the fourth primary
       partition

    2. I made it 192M in size (should be adequate since I have 128M RAM +
       4M video ram)

    3. Formatted it using the utility lphdisk available at that page

    4. shutdown and powercycled again.

  Again, pressing Fn-F12 just delivered the double-beep sound, a sound
  I have come to associate with failure.

Thanks to John Jones and Chris Schumann for their replies. However,
I have been beat! I give up!!!!


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