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[Alex Chiang <achiang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 3:26 AM, bernddude
> <bernddude@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > this time the conclusion was that , "of cause the HP repair
> > disks can't work, since Linux is installed on the HDD's ...
> > the solution is you have to wipe out your hard drive
> > (reinstall Windows) and then the repair disks will just work
> > fine "   (no joke that was the advise)

Yes, that advice is expected.

If you buy an HP consumer laptop, you must keep a Windows
partition around to upgrade firmware.

Otherwise, you can play with WinPE, but that, of course, involves
more work.

> > Unbuntu shutdown works just fine, does not hang anymore, but
> > sleep and hibernation still fails .

I haven't had time to poke at the sleep issue.

Don't use hibernate. Linux is known to not work well with
hibernation.

/ac