there's a CDROM you got, right?

it contains a program called phdisk.exe if I recall somewhere on there. 
  all you really need is a partition of type A0 though it may need to be 
'formatted' by the dos app.  just put the .exe file on a DOS boot 
floppy, possibly after moving partitions around under Linux.

here's a dump of my part table:
# /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/hda

Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2432 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *         1         6     48163+  83  Linux
/dev/hda2             7       528   4192965   83  Linux
/dev/hda3           529      2406  15085035    5  Extended
/dev/hda4          2407      2432    208845   a0  IBM Thinkpad hibernation
/dev/hda5           529       576    385528+  82  Linux swap
/dev/hda6           577      2406  14699443+  83  Linux

(note that I've got 192MB of RAM).

good luck with that.

   - Ariel


Francis wrote:
> Coolness - okay, this part I don't understand - how do you create a
> "hibernate" partition on your hard drive? My notebook didn't come with any
> boot floppy to allow this sort of monkeying around.
> 
> If you do an apm --suspend, does it hibernate, or does it go into super-low
> power (turn off the CPU, hard drive, but not memory) mode?
> 
> 
> --
> Francis
> 
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Ariel Salomon [mailto:asalomon@]
>>Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 11:52 PM
>>To: Francis
>>Subject: RE: N20U hibernate
>>
>>
>>
>>hi Francis,
>>
>>yes, it's APM bios aided hibernate!  Fn + A (yes the 'a' key) is
>>documented as the keyboard command for hibernate, just like Fn + Esc
>>is the suspend key.  I have a hibernate partition.  it took me a while to
>>figure this out.
>>
>>unfortunately, I've noticed that occasionally Fn + Esc seems to crash the
>>machine about 1 in 5 times.  I haven't seen the hibernate do that.  so,
>>it's not a perfect solution, but it's definitely useful.  I'm running
>>Redhat 7.2 and here's the relevant portion of my kernel .config:
>>(kernel 2.4.9-31)
>>
>>CONFIG_PM=y
>># CONFIG_ACPI is not set
>>CONFIG_APM=y
>># CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND is not set
>>CONFIG_APM_DO_ENABLE=y
>>CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE=y
>>CONFIG_APM_DISPLAY_BLANK=y
>>CONFIG_APM_RTC_IS_GMT=y
>># CONFIG_APM_ALLOW_INTS is not set
>># CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF is not set
>>
>>
>>hope it helps..
>>
>>  - Ariel
>>
>>Ariel Salomon (asalomon@, ariel@)
>>RLE Speech Communication Group, MIT, 36-545
>>O: (617) 452-3598   C: (617) 803-8099
>>
>>On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Francis wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Oh yeah? Thanks for the info! Please tell me more!
>>>
>>>Are you using the software-hibernate kernel patch, or are you
>>>
>>using APM bios
>>
>>>aided hibernate? Do you have the 300MB hibernate partition?
>>>
>>>What do you mean by "Fn-A"? Do you mean "Hold down the Fn key,
>>>
>>and then hit
>>
>>>the letter 'a'"? As far as I know, Fn-A doesn't do anything. Have you
>>>uncovered something new?
>>>
>>>
>>>--
>>>Francis
>>>
>>>
>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: Ariel Salomon [mailto:asalomon@]
>>>>Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 8:23 PM
>>>>To: francis@
>>>>Subject: N20U hibernate
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Francis,
>>>>
>>>>  I've got a Sceptre 7300 laptop and I can hibernate just fine..  I'm
>>>>not sure how to kick it off using the apm tools, but if you
>>>>
>>enable "User
>>
>>>>suspend" in your kernel you just need to hit Fn-A to hibernate the
>>>>machine.
>>>>
>>>>  Haven't found a fix for the lid-closing problem, though.
>>>>
>>>>hope that helps,
>>>>
>>>>  - Ariel
>>>>
>>>>--
>>>>Ariel Salomon (asalomon@, ariel@)
>>>>RLE Speech Communication Group, MIT, 36-545
>>>>O: (617) 452-3598   C: (617) 803-8099
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
> 



-- 
Ariel Salomon (asalomon@, ariel@)
RLE Speech Communication Group, MIT, 36-545
O: (617) 452-3598   C: (617) 803-8099