Hibernating Thinkpad

[Liam Proven]

2008/11/1 Amit Joshi <mckagan at gmail.com>:
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>
> 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.
>
>
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Amit Joshi

Thanks for that - I shall explore this option.


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