[Debian-eeepc-devel] swap and hibernation

[David L. Johnson]

With all the improvements of the behavior of my eee since upgrading to 
*26-8, I thought I would again try to make hibernation work.

I added 1.5g of swap partition to my sd card (no room on the internal 
drive), and added /dev/sdb2  to my /etc/fstab as swap.

It doesn't work.  I can suspend to ram, and recall it, and it works 
fine, but if I try to hibernate (using gnome's shutdown and choosing 
hibernate), it hangs for maybe a minute, then shuts down.  It does not 
hibernate, it shuts down.

So, is it possible to make hibernation work this way, suspending to a 
swap partition on the sd drive?  How?

The machine is a 701 with 1G of ram and an 8G sd card.  OS is a current 
Lenny.

BTW, at least the swap seems to be working.  It does not get messed up 
with a suspend-to-ram, like a mounted partition does if it is mounted at 
other than the default location.

-- 

David L. Johnson

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