[vox] [zjohnson@math.ucdavis.edu: Re: [NOT-vox] Another support story...]
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I figured I'd pass this one along just in case there are others out
there struggling with this.
Doug
PS: I thought it was interesting that every time I would try to suspend
to disk, it would fail, saying that the last suspend was not restored.
I noticed that under fdisk, the suspend partition would be marked
bootable:
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 730 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 10 80293+ 84 OS/2 hidden C: drive
/dev/hda2 11 475 3735112+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 476 491 128520 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda4 492 730 1919767+ 83 Linux
I could get it to save the partition if I toggled the bootable flag back
off. However, when I powered back on, it would give me the lilo prompt
and I couldn't figure out how to resume, thinking that it should be a
bios thing.
The link in Zach's message suggested the obvious--add the following
lines into /etc/lilo.conf for the suspend partition:
other=/dev/hda1
label=Resume
DUH! It goes to show you that an effective google search can make all the
difference! Next time I won't even bother with Dell's support. Thanks Zach!
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From: Zach Johnson <zjohnson@math.ucdavis.edu>
To: doug@dooglio.net
Subject: Re: [NOT-vox] Another support story...
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have you checked things like:
http://personal.eunet.fi/pp/tiny/inspiron/inspiron.htm
?
putting " linux dell 3800 "suspend to disk" " into google came up with
quite a bit of pages where people indicate how they have done it.
looks like you need to set up a special suspend partition then a
special lilo entry to boot the suspended image.
but I guess I've never tired to get StoD to work on my laptops..
been happy with normal suspend to ram
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 03:25:19PM -0800, R. Douglas Barbieri wrote:
> Here is another example of dealing with first-string support. I can't
> believe his solution. Why can't Dell just support the hardware?
>
> BTW: Has anyone else had this problem or something similar?
>
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> System was shipped Windows 98. You have to revert to factory
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> > From: "R. Douglas Barbieri" <doug@dooglio.net>
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> > Thanks for responding. Unfortuneatly, I'm not running Windows 98 (nor
> > any other Windows variant).
> >
> > The state of my machine is such that when I hit FN-A, it tells me it is
> > saving to disk (I have a proper hibernate partition in place). Once the
> > machine powers down, I press the power button to attempt to resume.
> > Instead of resuming, it boots up as if it hadn't been hibernated.
> >
> > I recently upgraded to the latest bios firmware, but S2D is still
> > broken.
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> > > > From: "Doug Barbieri" <doug@dooglio.net>
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> > > > eTrack: 6Q363A6Z1YK2BBL18
> > > > ***********************************************
> > > > System Label: Inspiron 3800
> > > >
> > > > Problem: Storage
> > > > Operating System: DOS
> > > > Problem Description: Unrestored S2D partition already present.
> > > >
> > > > I press <FN>A and the S2D in the bios will not suspend to disk--instead=
> > , I get the above error message.
> > > >
> > > > I have a partition of 78MB, with hex code 84 as type. Since I have 64MB=
> > , this should be enough when video memory is added in.
> > > >
> > > > I downloaded and ran first RM2SD.EXE, then I ran MK2SD.EXE /f (all unde=
> > r MSDOS).
> > > >
> > > > There is enough room at the start of the disk for the 78MB S2D partitio=
> > n. Since I have 64MB, this should be enough when video memory is added in. =
> > The partition occupies sectors 1-10 on the harddrive.
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> > > > Date submitted: 2/11/2003 11:20:40 AM
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