tlug: Re: Libretto hibernation

[Howard Abbey <habbey@example.com>]

Masanori Smiley Omote wrote:
> I'm aware of the partitioning problem.  I've heard that BIOS has been
> changed to make SS1000 fit to new power management system used in
> Microsoft Windows 98 and that causes hibernation not available on any
> other OSes than Windows.

Bummer.

> I used FIPS to shrink the partition for Win and make some other
> partitions to install Linux on SS1000.  Before it I checked the number
> of partitions and their sizes.  I found only one.

Correction: (from http://www.omote.com/libretto/#3.4 ) 
> It has at first two partitions.  One was 2GB-sized primary partition 
> for Windows 95 C:. The other was 16MB rather small empty expanded 
> partition for Windows 95 D:. 

Perhaps Windows 95 could handle shutdown on it's own w/o the 16 meg
partition, but maybe (big maybe) Linux & the bios needed it.

No telling though.
-- 
Howard
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