Hibernation on XPe

[gregory.holmes]

I'm trying to use the ReadyOn component to hibernate an image I have
built with no success.

I went back to basics and have just tried to Hibernate my image without
using ReadyOn.
I click start > shutdown press the shift key to change standby button
to hibernate and click on that button. My image says "Preparing to
Hibernate" then after two seconds the screen goes black.
There does not seem to be much time for the hiberfile to be written, or
it does not seem that it's being written. When I check on the Hard Disk
the file "hiberfil.sys" exists and is the same size as RAM but it is
full of zeroes (not much use!). I have checked on the group over the
last few days and think I have included the correct components. My
image size is 209MB

I would be most grateful for any suggestions

Thanks in advance

Greg Holmes

 

[KM]

Greg ,

I am not familiar with ReadyOn enough to comment here but since it was a solution for XP Pro machine back in SP1 times I may assume
they've got a bit more changes around nt loader or somewhere else, may be also in the disk dump drivers area.
This theoretically can affect the system hibernation feature if you didn't remove *all* ReadyOn's components from your image.

So the questions is, when you said you tried the image without ReadyOn, did you remove all the ReadyOn's part from your image
configuration?

Also, how does regular XP Pro behave on your target hardware? Does it perform the hibernation and standby properly?

 

[gregory.holmes]

KM

Thanks for the advice. I have tried a build of XP Home on my hardware
and found that Standby and Hibernate is not supported. The hardware
manufacturer has informed me that hibernate has been disabled from my
BIOS so I was never going to be successful with hibernate! I will post
any additional information when I have my new BIOS

Regards

Greg

 

[gregory.holmes]

I have now blown my BIOS with a new version supplied by the hardware
manufacturer and hibernate works!

Greg