Software suspend is scary, and multiple booting

[Michael R. Head]

On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 11:08 +0800, Trent Lloyd wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 07:46:39PM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > Ubuntu, at least, notices this, assumes that a resume failed, and clobbers
> > it back into a swap partition.
> 
> Eww thats ugly

Well, at one point it simply wasn't mounting swap. That was uglier. I
had to mkswap myself. Resume from hibernate wouldn't work on my laptop,
then things would go crazy after launching a few apps because I had no
swap space.

mike

> 
> > 
> > Otherwise, a failed resume leaves the user permanently lacking swap.
> > 
> > -- 
> >  - mdz
> 
> -- 
> Trent Lloyd <lathiat at bur.st>
> Bur.st Networking Inc.
> 
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Michael R. Head <burner at suppressingfire.org>
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