Re: [SLUG] save to disk

[Chris MacKenzie <cmackenz@nospam.optushome.com.au>]

Gregg Jorgen Suaning wrote:
> 
> 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).

On my old KTX P100 (only 16 meg of ram) notebook it's the last non-dos
partition on the drive.

Device Boot    Start      End   Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *         1      766   772096+   b  Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda4           767      784    18144   a0  Unknown

I've never had any problems with completely re-install either Linux or
'doze.

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Chris MacKenzie

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