Do I need a swap *partition* to use hibernation?

[Bo Berglund]

On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 16:27:58 +0200, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>
wrote:

>On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 at 08:47, Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I am repurposing a 9 year old HP Elitebook 8440w laptop as a Ubuntu
>> development machine. It has 8GB of RAM.
>
>for suspend/resume and hibernation, check your BIOS is current.
>
>The latest is F.60 Rev A from Nov 30, 2015:
>
>https://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/selfservice/hp-elitebook-8440w-mobile-workstation/4097189
>

For some reason the HP website keeps showing this message when I try
to locate bios updates for mu old laptop. It does so also when using
your shown URL.

"We were unable to find drivers for your product."

I am doing it from a new HP Z-book 15 G5 with Windows 10.
Apparently they are overly "smart" and assume I want to update the
machine I am sending the URL from or some such...

I spent some time this morning with their site and even though I
entered the product ID and serial number etc as read from the BIOS
directly it did not manage to show a result other that message above.

I even tried the URL shown on my Ubuntu in the 8440w laptop, but same
result. :(

It looks like you are able to reach the correct page even though I am
not, is there some way you can provide the update file?

And also some instructions on how to apply it in the absence of any
Windows version on this laptop...
The files I have seen are all SPxxxxx.exe softpacks, which 7zip can
unpack, but to no use since they contain Windows utilities (exe
files).


-- 
Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden