F16 with current updates from testing - resume does not work anymore

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Sat Oct 22 07:37:05 UTC 2011


On Sat, 2011-10-22 at 02:39 +0200, Lars Seipel wrote:
> On Tuesday, October 18, 2011 06:59:26 PM Christian Menzel wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > After installing the F16 beta, suspend/resume did work on my Thinkpad X220.
> > 
> > Now after some updates the system won't resume anymore but just blink with
> > all its LEDs including ThinkLight.
> 
> My suspend issues disappeared when I updated to the latest firmware version 
> (1.22 iirc) available from Lenovo.
> 
> Be aware that you have to use EFI to boot Fedora. The latest firmware 
> revisions (at least, don't know about the former versions) make bogus 
> assumptions that you never want to boot from a GPT-partitioned disk while 
> using BIOS compatibility mode. It just won't try booting from a GPT disk, you 
> have to use UEFI.

That's https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=735733 . In TC2 you
can pass 'nogpt' to anaconda to make it format disks with MS-DOS disk
labels rather than GPT.
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