On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Tim wrote:
Tim:
> >> Suspend does it to RAM. So your computer needs (minimal) power
> >> continuously available to it, to keep what it's stuffed into memory.
> >> If the memory is lost, then the next boot will be a cold boot.
>
> Linux Tyro:
> > But without inten
Tim:
>> Suspend does it to RAM. So your computer needs (minimal) power
>> continuously available to it, to keep what it's stuffed into memory.
>> If the memory is lost, then the next boot will be a cold boot.
Linux Tyro:
> But without intentionally deleting memory, how could it be lost except
>
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 7:28 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
> But without intentionally deleting memory, how could it be lost except
> for the case
> > that power has gone and I am not using UPSCold boot simply means
> that it doesn't
> > need credentials to log-on?
>
> cold boot means a normal boot
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 6:17 AM, Tim wrote:
> With suspend and hibernate, the computer stores everything that it's
> currently doing (documents your reading/editing, pages you're browsing,
> etc), so that when you wake the computer up, you resume from where you
> left off.
>
> Hibernate stores it
On Mon, 2011-11-07 at 01:47 -0500, Linux Tyro wrote:
> Hibernation and Suspension of distro -- these options are a little
> typical for me at least, I just either logout or Shut down.
>
> Logout - The current user logs out of the session.
> Restart - To restart the computer to get back the sessio
On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Greg Woods wrote:
All this was just an answer to the question "why would anybody ever want
> to boot from /home". I don't claim this is the optimal setup.
>
Yes, it was just a question for information point of view, and now cleared
that /home is for the data stora
On Mon, 2011-11-07 at 04:50 +1030, Tim wrote:
> Then you have funny things, like: A laptop that will suspend and wake
> up, but goes permanently into a coma if you try to hibernate then wake
> up.
Yes, unfortunately, whether Linux suspend and/or hibernate will work
well is a function of exactl
On Mon, 2011-11-07 at 04:51 +1030, Tim wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-11-06 at 07:43 -0700, Greg Woods wrote:
> > The /boot partition is where Fedora boots from. It contains a
> > grub/grub.conf file for booting various Fedora kernels. I need some
> > other partition to use for the main boot loader.
>
> Yo
On 11/06/2011 10:21 AM, Tim wrote:
> You can have more than one boot partition, you can even give them all
> the same name (which can be a nuisance to sort through), or different
> names (a bit more logical).
If that's what you want, you're probably best off giving them
descriptive labels, such a
On Sun, 2011-11-06 at 07:43 -0700, Greg Woods wrote:
> The /boot partition is where Fedora boots from. It contains a
> grub/grub.conf file for booting various Fedora kernels. I need some
> other partition to use for the main boot loader.
You can have more than one boot partition, you can even give
On Sun, 2011-11-06 at 07:59 -0700, Greg Woods wrote:
> Essentially, hibernation is a method of writing the contents of RAM
> and the CPU registers to the swap space, then powering down the
> computer. When the computer comes back on, it reloads the RAM and the
> CPU registers from the hard drive, a
On Sat, 2011-11-05 at 11:50 -0400, Linux Tyro wrote:
>
> I really don't know what is hibernation and all that. Can you step by
> step let me know or point me to the link what is hibdernation for
> beginners?
Sorry, I just can't resist:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=linux%20hibernation
Essentially, hibe
On Sun, 2011-11-06 at 21:51 +1030, Tim wrote:
>
> As you say, you only need to chainload through an extra location to be
> able to get around the "computer always resumes without giving me a
> choice" problem. You could chainload to home, or to any other
> partition. Using home would seem an od
On Sat, 2011-11-05 at 08:55 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 11/05/2011 08:42 AM, Greg Woods wrote:
> The master boot block contains pointers to the /home boot
> > configuration that has nothing in it but chainloaders. Then grub inside
> > Fedora is installed only on the Fedora root partition
>
> Woul
On Sat, 2011-11-05 at 09:42 -0600, Greg Woods wrote:
> I have a system with Windows dual boot, and I want to be able to
> hibernate Linux, boot into Windows, and then resume Linux from
> hibernation. With recent versions of Fedora, this is not possible from
> the standard grub configuration, becaus
On 11/05/2011 08:42 AM, Greg Woods wrote:
> Unfortunately, this safeguard does get in the way of my desire to
> hibernate Linux and boot into Windows. So I get around this by booting
> from /home. The master boot block contains pointers to the /home boot
> configuration that has nothing in it but c
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Joe Zeff wrote:
For a partition to be bootable, it has to have the appropriate files on
> it to boot your computer. Can you give me one reason why you'd want to
> have those files in /home, even if it is on its own partition, as it is
> on my computers?
>
Not ha
On Sat, 2011-11-05 at 08:25 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
> For a partition to be bootable, it has to have the appropriate files on
> it to boot your computer. Can you give me one reason why you'd want to
> have those files in /home, even if it is on its own partition, as it is
> on my computers?
Ye
On 11/05/2011 07:01 AM, Linux Tyro wrote:
> I was confused since I thought earlier that partitions are always
> bootable, but we can have /home as partition which is still not booted
> (for clarification).
For a partition to be bootable, it has to have the appropriate files on
it to boot your com
On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> In principle one probably could tweak a system into booting from the /home
> partition, but I see no reason to ever want such a configuration.
> You want to think of the /home partition as your working area --- it is
> used
> for storing
On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> In principle one probably could tweak a system into booting from the /home
> partition, but I see no reason to ever want such a configuration.
> You want to think of the /home partition as your working area --- it is
> used
> for storing
On Friday 04 November 2011 11:11:56 Linux Tyro wrote:
> Well, since (now) /home is a separate partition, but we cannot boot from
> /home only because it is not containing the required file to get booted and
> it is only for storing the data.?
In principle one probably could tweak a system into
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
This is how bootloading works...
>
Well, since (now) /home is a separate partition, but we cannot boot from
/home only because it is not containing the required file to get booted and
it is only for storing the data.?
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On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> Nothing is permanent, of course, it would just be a hassle to fix. Neither
> Windows nor Linux would boot, and you would need to boot from the
> installation
> DVD or something called the "Rescue CD", and use the rescue environment to
> r
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
This is how bootloading works... First, there is bios, which is programmed
> to
> look for and execute the boot code in the MBR, and it does so at some
> point.
> The "look for and execute" means that bios needs to access the MBR of the
> di
On Thursday 03 November 2011 14:14:46 Linux Tyro wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 7:44 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> What earlier I used to think is that, "BIOS only send the instructions to
> the boot-loader (probably or whatever it sends the signal to) to just boot,
> BIOS has not such a bigger me
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 7:44 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> "The boot loader is installed on a partition that doesn't lie entirely
> > below 128 GB. The system might not boot is BIOS support only lba24
> (result
> > is error 18 during install grub MBR)."
> > __
> >
On Thursday 03 November 2011 07:33:33 Linux Tyro wrote:
> Inserted the CD in the CD-ROM (yes it was the first boot option).
> Everything was going on smooth but after some time I came to the windows
> where I have to do something regarding 'partitioning'. The CD, by default
> showed with the follow
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