Hibernation problem

[DavidMcCann]

I'm using an IBM Thinkpad X31 and, since switching from Fedora to Salix, it no longer hibernates.

pm-suspend.log shows hibernation as successfully achieved, but when I restart the computer it just goes through a normal boot. I looked for an error in dmesg, but there was nothing.

I tried adding resume=/dev/sda3 to the kernel parameters in lilo.conf but that doesn't help. Google has revealed nothing useful.

Has anyone any ideas?

[thenktor]

Did you run "lilo" afterwards? What's the size of RAM and swap?

PS: Does suspend to disk really start faster than normal bootup?

[DavidMcCann]

Resuming from hibernation is definitely faster.

Swap is the same size as the memory (2GB)

"run lilo" has me stumped. Like most Linux users, I only know grub, where when you edit the configuration file it just takes effect. So what was I supposed to have done?

[mimosa]

I think you just do

# lilo

and that updates everything. However you may prefer to run liloconfig (from console, ncurses) or lilosetup (from the system menu, providing a very elegant GUI); either will give you the chance to review the way you have things set up.

I say that because I tried running just lilo, and from its messages, it appeared to have made some undersirable changes to my multi-boot setup, so without rebooting, I ran liloconfig just in case.

See man lilo, too.

[DavidMcCann]

Thanks! That did the trick. Now back to my list of other problems ... I've been at this for 8 days now