Software suspend is scary, and multiple booting

Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Wed Oct 5 14:57:51 CDT 2005


On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 03:42:58PM -0400, Michael R. Head wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 11:17 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > (a) and (b) seem practically impossible, given that the successful end state
> > of hibernation is for the computer to be powered off.
> 
> I think it would be nice to display some sort of progress meter saying
> that the hibernation process is running. It could also display a
> sentence that the computer will shut off when complete. I believe this
> is roughly what Windows does.

Would be nice, but is a lot harder than it sounds, and may or may not be
feasible in the near term.

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 - mdz



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