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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?

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

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

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?

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.

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