From: "Vivek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Derek Broughton wrote: > > > Cyn wrote: > > > 3) I don't see what a boot loader has to do with hibernation - resuming > > > from hibernation isn't booting, it's resuming the computer to the state it > > > was in before suspend. > > > > It's still booting. When you hibernate, the system powers off. So then you > > have to be able to boot from that state into either Linux or Windows - and > > if windows, resume from hibernate. > > Uh, no - that doesn't sound like hibernation - hibernation is a nearly-off > state - the bios dumps the memory+video -> disk, and then when you hit the > power button (or whatever) it revives the hardware and zaps the data file > back into memory+video. When I wake-from-hibernation, booting does not > occur - the bootloader never gets a look in. > > There are other _similar_ solutions, that involve a frobbed kernel that > knows how to cheat and reinitialise itself from a special swsupend file: > but I don't think those are technically hibernation.
Technically? Technically, what I described is what Windows does. Which is what the original poster was asking about. It's also, afaik, what swsusp does. I haven't ever had a computer, laptop or desktop, that had a suspend-to-disk that didn't take the computer to full power-off. -- derek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
