Changing Disk Priority When Booting Prevents/Enables Sleep Mode!

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RyzaJr

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Hopefully the title was clear.

Basically my computer, for some reason, can't sleep (from Windows, Slackware is fine) when I set the BIOS to boot from my HDD which has Slackware Linux and Lilo installed to it. But if I set it to boot from my SSD which has Windows 7 on it, it will sleep just fine from Windows.

Anyone know why this would be? Doing the powercfg /energy command in Windows didn't really say anything specific, and /lastwake didn't mention anything because the computer won't even go to sleep for it to troubleshoot.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
 
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McHenryB

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Changing the boot order in the BIOS shouldn't affect the ability of the machine to sleep.

I find your question a little ambiguous. Do you mean that you can sleep the computer from Windows, but not from Slackware? This just sounds like a configuration problem. What release of Slackware are you using? The first place to start troubleshooting is to look at the pm-suspend.log file in /var/log.

Or are you somehow booting Windows when you have set the HDD as the boot disk and can't sleep from Windows in that case? If so, how are you booting Windows?
 
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RyzaJr

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Yes, that is the case. Sorry for not being clear. I boot into Windows with Lilo. Slackware 14.1 is on /dev/hdax and Windows 7 is on /dev/sdax. Not sure why Slackware would not allow me to enter sleep mode while I'm working in Windows 7, but then again I am pretty new to Linux. Guess I'll try to figure how to suspend from Slackware to see if that works or not for now.

Edit: pm-suspend from Slackware works just fine. Just not Windows sleep mode.
 
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RyzaJr

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That's exactly it McHenryB! Thanks for the help.

Basically Windows wants the first partitions to be bootable. See, my Windows 7 partition on the SSD is the first bootable partition, but the Slackware install on the HDD was not. I guess Windows 7 wants every disk to have the first partition set as the bootable one.

So I just reinstalled Slackware after partitioning it better and set the first one as boot, now Windows can sleep just fine. Thanks for the help guys.
 
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