On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 00:50, mi wrote: > Hi Nils Anders, Ceasr and whoever's interested !
Thanks a lot for the information. It is pretty much what I expected. I think I won't bother with hibernation yet --not with BIOS hibernation anyway. If my machine behaves as yours, I can reboot faster than a suspend/resume cycle :-/ > Amazing was the comparison to the new-installed Win2000 (with an empty word > doc ): 10 | 10. > This is definiteley another mechanism, though. > It doesn't show up the BIOS hibernation screen at all. > Waking up by pressing the power button starts up grub as uusual ! > Then, after choosing Win2000 from the bootmenu, > it reinitializes the session very quick (else needs about 3 minutes to come > up). > btw. In Win2000 there's is a menu chooser for hibernation which shows up the > amount of free spacce on C: compared to the needed space for hib. I'm almost sure that W2K implements hibernation in its kernel, bypassing the BIOS. There is a project for doing the same on Linux: http://falcon.sch.bme.hu/~seasons/linux/swsusp.html There are a number of advantages with this approach: - You couldn't care less if the BIOS supports hibernation, or does so in a broken, stupid fashion (my laptop's case). Actually, you should not even need APM/ACPI, except for powering down without user intervention. - You do not need to waste disk on a hibernation partition/file. It uses the swap space for hibernation. - Suspending/resuming is much faster: you do not need to write to disk pages already swapped out, nor restore them on resume; and you do not need to dump memory that is not in use. The page includes patches for kernels 2.4.10 and 2.5.1 (among other, older, versions). I don't know if it would work on a debianish 2.4.18 or 2.4.20, but I think I'll give it a go when I can spare some time. That could mean a long wait, though; and it may not work at all, or break other stuff. It still looks quite experimental. Anyway, if someone tries it before (hint, hint, Michael :-), I would *greatly* appreciate a full account of the adventure. Best regards, -CR
