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List:       opensolaris-discuss
Subject:    Re: [osol-discuss] Installed OS now Win7 won't hibernate?
From:       Svein Skogen <svein () stillbilde ! net>
Date:       2010-04-28 21:05:07
Message-ID: 4BD8A303.3070705 () stillbilde ! net
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On 28.04.2010 22:53, Kyle McDonald wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> When I originally installed my laptop last time, I put OS in a
> partition, and it booted fine with grub. I also loaded Win7 X64 in a
> second partition, and as MS is known to do it rewrote the MBR and made
> itself the active partition. I ended up using Win7 mostly for the past
> few months and didn't need to boot into OS at all, so I never put grub
> back in the MBR. During this time Win7 had no problem Hibernating.
> 
> Recently I actually installed OS b134 into that first partition, and it
> put grub back for me. I edited the grub file so that booting Win7 works
> great, now I can go back and forth.
> 
> But I noticed pretty quickly that now when I'm booted in Win7 and
> request it to hibernate, it goes through the motions, but end up just
> basically locking the screen and staying awake - Almost like it
> hibernated and then automatically woke up.
> 
> I'm wondering if Win7 might have noticed that the MBR changed? Maybe it
> needs to have a specific MBR in order to track something about hibernation?
> 
> Anyone else seen anything like this? Anyone know how to maybe get Win7
> to put what ever it needs at the beginning of it's partition, instead of
> in the MBR?
>  
>   -Kyle

Disable hibernation in windows, reboot, delete the c:\hiberfil.sys file,
re-enable hibernation, reboot, and try again.

//Svein

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