Re: grub 0.90 prevents Standby in Windows

[Thierry Laronde]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 08:33:01PM +0200, A.Mueller wrote:
> Hello,

Hello,

> As the only thing I've changed was the Installation of Mandrake 
> and grub I cleared the mbr from a Win bootdisk and started the system.
> After that the standby-option was present again and worked well.
> I thought that something went wrong with the grub-installation and so I 
> bootet my Linux from a bootdisk and reinstalled grub.
> The same problem occured again. So I decided to fall back to Version
> 0.5.96.1  with wich I don't have the problem of the missing 
> standby-mode in Windows 98.
> To be sure that it is not a problem with this computer or with
> my  Windows-installation, I installed Win on another
> system without any vendor-drivers and after that installed Mandrake 8.1 
> with grub. I got the same problem, that after that the standby-mode in 
> Win98 was missing. This test-system is an Intel PIII, 850MHZ.
> 256MB RAM, ATI-graphics with Phoenix-BIOS.
> So I asked in a Newsgroup (de.comp.gnu) whether someone else had the 
> same problem and I got an answer from someone, using SuSE 7.2 with
> grub 0.90 and Windows ME. He told me that the same problem occured on 
> his computer. Only a fallback to grub-version 0.5.96.1 could bring back 
> the standby-mode in Windows.

Just a question, since some of us (I for one) don't have Windows, what
is the standby-mode in Windows. Something related to APM or ACPI I
guess?

Cheers,
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