Hibernating Thinkpad

[Amit Joshi]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 2:39 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've upgraded my IBM ThinkPad X31 from Hardy to Intrepid and not only
> do I now get (rather slow) wobbly windows and luxuries like that, but
> also, suspend and resume now works. Suspend always worked, but the
> machine would never resume again afterwards.
>
> So far, so good!
>
> However, Hibernation still doesn't work. The machine works for a
> little, the screen goes blank, the sleep light flashes - then it
> instantly comes awake again with the password dialogue.
>
> It has never worked before, but with the improvement in
> suspend/resume, I was getting hopeful.
>
> The machine has 1GB RAM (which under Ubuntu seems enough, it seldom
> swaps) and a 2GB swap partition. Both suspend/resume and
> hibernate/resume work fine in the IBM install of XP SP3 and TinyVista.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
>
Hi,

For Hibernation and other such options to work, there needs to be a "resume"
option present in your kernel line in menu.lst (grub). As the name implies,
resume is used to actually resume operation after hiberantion. Usually, the
resume option is used such that the resume device is the swap partition. So
for example, if your resume partition is /dev/hda2, then we would have to
use resume=/dev/hda2 and append it to the kernel line.




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Regards,
Amit Joshi
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