Hibernating Thinkpad

[Derek Broughton]

Amit Joshi wrote:

> For Hibernation and other such options to work, there needs to be a
> "resume" option present in your kernel line in menu.lst (grub). 

Not really.  But this has been "just working" for me, that I can't remember
what is supposed to control it.

> 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.

"usually" the resume= option isn't used at all.
-- 
derek