On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 02:11:28PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Ferlito) writes:
>
> > Hibernate is suually different to suspend. In suspend there is
> > usuallay still stuuf in RAM being kept there by the battery. Easy
> > test put the laptop into suspend pull out the battery wait a bit put
> > it back. If it still works then you're in hibernate which means
> > everything was saved to disk. If it's rebooted then it's just
> > suspend.
>
> I see. Thanks for explaining, John. I think it would be possible, in
> most cases, to use the swap partition to save the state for hibernate,
> though. What do you think? Does the APM code in the kernel rely on the
> APM BIOS to do the actual writing of the RAM image? If it does,
> wouldn't it be possible to fool it and make do without any FAT
> partitions?
>
Usually it's laptop specific and uses a fat16 partition however there's
no good
reason to do it that way. Theres a utility I think called swpsup which
basically does what you're
saying pages all ram out to swap and then shutsdown the machine. You can then
restore state at powerup.
--
John
