[SLUG] save to disk

[Gregg Jorgen Suaning <greggs@nospam.gsbme.unsw.edu.au>]

Anyone know how the 'save to disk' function works on a laptop? This is the
facility where the data in memory is saved to disk and the computer shuts
off - when the computer is restarted, you pick up where you left off. 

The facility I have (rather, had) on my Compaq laptop was called (something
like) Pheonix Bios Save to Disk. This facility worked perfectly when
running Linux (and Windows). Because of a file fault, I had to reformat my
Win98 partition (/dev/hda1) - as you do - making extra storage space for
Linux ;) After doing this, the save to disk function no longer works when
using my Linux install on /dev/hda3 (/dev/hda2 is swap).

When it was working, I recall it clearly saying something to the effect of
it being part of the Pheonix Bios (not software on the disk) but erasing
the data on /dev/hda1 seems to have killed it completely. I'm perplexed -
if it was in bios, what happened to it? Anyone know how I can re-install it
or something similar? 

Owing to various reasons of patheticness on the part of Compaq tech
support, I can't get the original files back (the CD that came with the
computer has a factory scratch on it but since it is an overseas model (of
which there are equivalents here that would use the same disk), they won't
help me get a replacement - can't even buy one).

I'll eventually get a new CD (a friend in America has ordered one for me
and will ship it to me) but the way the CD works, it wipes the entire disk
(not just the Windoze partition) and restores the computer to the original
Linux-free setup. If someone wants to use Linux on this machine (and Linux
alone without other inferiour operating systems cluttering up the drive),
they have to do without the save to disk feature. Hopefully there is a way
around this. Any ideas?

Thank you,

Gregg
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