|| On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 09:28:44 +0100 (CET) || Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
at> On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Dawood Morady Garawand wrote: >> Or perhaps resume2=swap:/dev/hda2?!! at> It just doesn't matter whether you add the "swap:" before the device at> or if you use "resume" or "resume2" - it all works if you only have a at> working grub entry: The removal of my newly baken 2.6.10 kernel package at> just removed the /vmlinuz symlink (instead of replacing it by the at> /vmlinuz.old or whatever). So this part of the problem is solved and at> was caused by my own stupidity. at> But the other part of the problem is, that the "normal" boot kernel at> entry now just resumes from SwSusp2 instead of doing a new boot as at> it did before. We might discuss about the sense of the attempt to at> boot from scratch after a SwSuspend but it just worked before and at> I tried to uses that (more or less for testing purpose). at> I found out that the journals of the ext3fs are not completely written at> before the SwSusp2 which seems to be the reason for my fsck problems at> with kernel 2.6.10 - I might just have mixed up something. Fiddling at> around with this I just found out the 1742th way how to destroy your at> boot partition: I tried booting a Debian packaged kernel (2.6.8) which at> "solved" the fsck errors on the SwSuspended box and afterwards tried at> again my own kernel (2.6.9) which tried to resume from SwSusp and at> obviousely found a different state on the disk and did some other at> "repairing" steps which left me with a broken /bin/mount and some other at> broken files in /bin (perhaps more). I'm currently doint an at> "apt-get --reinstall install <everything>" ... at> So after this excurse about another elegant method to break your system: at> IMHO it is a bug that the file system is left in an inconsistent state at> when doing a SwSuspend. How can I prevent this? While I was looking for swsusp2 I found a interesting entry in FAQ about booting with normal kernels. I'm attaching it here: http://softwaresuspend.berlios.de/HOWTO-4.html#dataloss1 -- O T A V I O S A L V A D O R --------------------------------------------- E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN: 5906116 GNU/Linux User: 239058 GPG ID: 49A5F855 Home Page: http://www.freedom.ind.br/otavio --------------------------------------------- "Microsoft gives you Windows ... Linux gives you the whole house." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
