the Missing M
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Posted: May 19 2007,12:35 |
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This has worked with a few things, including an HP boot-floppy; suspend-to-disk in Linux, boot from another disk to tweak some BIOS setting or other, then reboot again, and resume from wherever I'd left off.
But the floppy ran MSDOS, which wouldn't even recognize, let alone mess with a Linux swap partition [suspend to disk compresses whatever's in RAM, and dumps it out into swap, btw]. I haven't tried this with DSL, or other live CD distros for that very reason.
Although DSL's never even come close to utilizing swap here, I do wonder if it would activate the swap partition on boot, or respect whatever `marked-for-resume' info another Linux OS put there, and leave it alone. If nobody's sure, I can try it myself and get back to you.
Or is there some bootcode for DSL, to ignore swap partitions?
BTW, this is really more of a vanity question than anything serious; don't want to let go of that spiffy six-days-and-counting uptime status unless I have to. ;-)
Thanks,
Patrick.
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