Software suspend is scary, and multiple booting

[Trent Lloyd]

On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 12:57:51PM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> 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.

We should use suspend2, it does this. :)
Nice progress bar on suspend and resume, and can even do usplash-style
integration rather than a text one.

Trent

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