Arjen Runsink wrote:

From Linux to Win98 HIMEM.SYS complains about an unavailable A20 line (or hook) and quits to DOS.

If you can access a copy of "The Windows Resource Kit" book (paperback) then look up A20 in the index. The A20 is a technical reference to the line on the CPU that allows access to extended memory, and helps memory managers run properly. The [386enh] section of System.ini contains a setting, A20EnableCount, which is assigned a value A20EnableCount=n where n is a number in the range of 1 to 8. You might try adding the following lines to Himem.sys WIN /D:XSV X=EMMExclude=A000-Efff S=SystemROMBreakpoint=OFF V=VirtualHDIRQ=OFF If Windows starts up then you have IRQ and Address conflicts.

From Win98 To Linux all goes fine, except that my PCMCIA 10BaseT card cannot be initialized. It is recognised though.

Smells like an IRQ conflict problem.

I also tried giving LILO the kernel parameter reboot=cold or reboot=bios, to no effect.

The only work around is to shut the thing down and start up again.

Maybe in combination is the following problem: I cannot suspend to disk. Putting the laptop to sleep is no problem. But 'hibernating' is not working. It even isn't working for Win98 anymore.

I tried to initialize my Suspend file, both in it's own primary partition or as a file on my FAT32 partition (where it always worked) but to no effect.

Oh yeah, I am talking about a Compaq Presario 1805, this is a PII 266 with a Phoenix BIOS.

Seems like you need to tweek some BIOS settings too.

BB, Arjen

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On 29 Mar 99, at 9:14, Arjen Runsink wrote:

[re-ordering the message a bit:]

Oh yeah, I am talking about a Compaq Presario 1805, this is a PII 266 with a Phoenix BIOS.

I hope I'm not muddying the waters here, but I remember reading something about Compaq computers being peculiar in that the BIOS stores some configuration information on the hard drive's 1st cylinder which can cause problems (I probably don't have the details exactly correct...) I would suggest starting at the Linux Laptop page: <A HREF="http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/"><A HREF="http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/</A">http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/</A</A>> There are several links to Compaq Presario pages; although I didn't see the 1805, another model may be similar enough. I doubt that this problem is SuSE specific. -Bob

I am quite new to Linux, but bought the package and dug in deep.

I think I have mastered quite a lot in the last three weeks, trying out a lot of possibillities the SuSE distribution has to offer.

There are two things that bother me though.

I have installed it all on a partition on my laptop, and it all works like a charm. But I can not reboot "cleanly" from Linux to Win98 vv.

From Linux to Win98 HIMEM.SYS complains about an unavailable A20 line (or hook) and quits to DOS. From Win98 To Linux all goes fine, except that my PCMCIA 10BaseT card cannot be initialized. It is recognised though.

I also tried giving LILO the kernel parameter reboot=cold or reboot=bios, to no effect.

The only work around is to shut the thing down and start up again.

Maybe in combination is the following problem: I cannot suspend to disk. Putting the laptop to sleep is no problem. But 'hibernating' is not working. It even isn't working for Win98 anymore.

I tried to initialize my Suspend file, both in it's own primary partition or as a file on my FAT32 partition (where it always worked) but to no effect.

Oh yeah, I am talking about a Compaq Presario 1805, this is a PII 266 with a Phoenix BIOS.

BB, Arjen

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