Re: tlug: Sony VAIO & apm again

[Klaus Kudielka <klaus.kudielka@example.com>]

On Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 03:13:04PM +0900, Manuel M. T. Chakravarty wrote:
> It is a slightly strange order to first install Linux and
> then to enable the hibernation partition.  Even if you have
> PHDISK.EXE you will have to make room for the partition that 
> it creates.  PHDISK.EXE is absolutely dump.  It just takes
> the fourth primary partition and reserves as much space at
> the end of the disk as it sees fit; if this collides with
> any of the existing partitions, you get a screwed partition
> table.  (How can somebody write such a broken program...)

I currently only have a 1G Linux partition and a 128M swap
partition at the beginning. The rest (~3G) is currently
unused.

I just got a copy of PHDISK from a kind soul and tried it
on a different laptop here at work. Indeed, it just
overwrites the end of the disk - no check whether it is
used by any partition. I'm not sure whether it updates
the entry of hda4 at the end of the process, since I
killed it first.

Anyway, I'm going to try it this evening on the VAIO.

> IMO, the Right Thing is, first run PHDISK.EXE, then use
> fdisk to set up the other partitions, and finally, install
> Linux.  

Yes, it's certainly safer. But since I have enough free space
at the end and an empty hda4 entry, I should be fine.

> You should be able to boot DOS/Windows from one of the CDs.

I don't have the CD-ROM drive.

> If I remember correctly, there is a (text) menu, which let's
> you drop to a DOS prompt before the actual (re)installation
> of Windoze begins.  Try looking for PHDISK.EXE from that DOS 
> prompt.

The recovery CD #1 is bootable, according to the docs. When I mount it
as iso9660 (on a different machine), there is only a single .pac
file there.
Is this some kind of filesystem image? Maybe I'll try to
mount it as vfat with the loopback driver some day ;)

> > Otherwise I get an oops at resume, followed by a panic (killing idle task).
> > I tried that with 2.0.36 from slink and a self-made 2.2.9 with
> > pcmcia-cs-3.0.11. Anyway, I'll try to track that down when I have time.
> 
> Does the card otherwise work?  Is this a CardBus card?  I

Yes, it works perfectly in both laptops I have. No problems with
suspend/resume on the digital hinote.
No, it's not Cardbus.
BTW, the same oops happens if I have a CompactFlash card active
during suspend/resume. It seems to be a general pcmcia-cs problem.
Unfortunately, the oops appears in schedule() and not in the
PCMCIA code. Haven't analyzed the call trace yet (writing that
whole oops down and retyping it is tedious).

> Good Luck!

Thanks for the help.

-Klaus
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