In message <20011123024948.B91B47B55@berkshire.research.att.com>, "Steven M. Be
llovin" writes:
>What kind of laptop is this?  On my old IBM laptops, hibernate worked 
>through the BIOS; on my current one (a T21), it's done through the OS, 
>which means that it doesn't work under NetBSD,

This is an HP n5490.  A bit of study suggests that this may be related to
whether or not there's a dedicated hibernate partition available.  If there
is, the BIOS can probably suspend to it - but the partition has to exist.

The problem, of course, is that I don't have any spare holes in the FDISK
table.  Unfortunately, none of the OS's in question can be installed into
an extended partition, so far as I know, so I need to either sacrifice one,
or not have a hibernate partition.

-s