[ATrpms-users] F7 and Suspend2

[Matthias Hensler]

On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 12:19:08PM -0400, Jeff Guerdat wrote:
> I have Suspend2 working on my laptop but there's a hiccup someplace when 
> trying to do the same on my desktop.  The procedure was essentially the 
> same on both - download the hibernate and mkinitrd scripts from 
> http://mhensler.de/swsusp/download_en.php (since they aren't available 
> on ATrpms) and the kernel files plus userui from ATrpms.

They are not? They should be. Axel, any problems with these packages?

> All installs fine.  However, on the desktop, trying to use my old
> configuration from FC6, which uses a hibernate file rather than swap
> space, creates the /suspend_file of the specified size and then stops,
> whining that it wants to use swap.  Yesterday I was able to get it to
> give me the entry for GRUB but that didn't work when I tried testing
> today for the first time.  Now, if I delete the suspend file and try
> to recreate it, the file is made and it says that it wants to use
> swap.

Hibernation to file is supported, but not well documented. There is some
egg-chicken problem in the setup. To get it running you first need to
boot into a Suspend2 kernel.

Then edit /etc/hibernate/suspend2.conf and uncomment the
"FilewriteLocation" entry there and fill in the correct values.

After that delete a previos existing suspendfile and recreate your
initrd by running the following command (as root):

/sbin/new-kernel-pkg-suspend2 --package kernel --mkinitrd --depmod --suspend2-version=20210 --suspend2-userui=auto --install 2.6.21-1.3194_2.fc7.cubbi_suspend2

(fill in the right kernel version if using a different kernel)

The mkinitrd script should create a new suspendfile and write the
correct values in the initrd. You should not need any special parameters
on the kernel commandline.

Regards,
Matthias

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