[Debian-eeepc-devel] swap and hibernation

[Eric Cooper]

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 10:54:13PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> The difference comes around at boot time: if the system recognizes an
> available resume image in your swap partition, it should boot just
> enough to read in that image, reset the state of the system to match,
> and then jump right back to where it was.

You also need to boot with a parameter like "resume=/dev/sdb2" that
specifies the swap device where the image was saved. (At least that's
what I remember from when I tried, unsuccessfully, to get it to work
on my 701 with an external SDHC card as swap. I haven't tried
recently.)

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