From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Nov 1 23:57:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from pooh.elsevier.nl (pooh.elsevier.nl [145.36.9.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C872B14CEA for ; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 23:57:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from steve@pooh.elsevier.nl) Received: (from steve@localhost) by pooh.elsevier.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id HAA00299; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 07:53:39 GMT (envelope-from steve) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199911020308.TAA18976@mina.sr.hp.com> Date: Tue, 02 Nov 1999 07:53:39 -0000 (GMT) From: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" To: Darryl Okahata Subject: RE: Hibernation & Phoenix Notebios??? Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 02-Nov-99 Darryl Okahata wrote: > Hi, > > Does hibernation/save-to-disk work for anyone with a laptop with a > Phoenix "NoteBIOS" BIOS? I've got an old HP OmniBook 3000, and I can't I have had it working on some laptops (not my compaq Presario yet though). I have almost always had to fiddle with geometry settings until they match whatever is hardwired into the suspend to disk code in the bios otherwise memory dumps overwrite filesystems and you get what you have seen. I am still trying to figure out what the settings need to be on mine which has a touchy bios that won't even try unless it believes the partition table (or sdomething). ------------------------------------------------------- Tell a computer to WIN and ... ... You lose ------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message