Re: two issues with suspend to disk in Suse 10.2

I am still using SuSe 9.3. Therefore I can´t give you any hints.
Indeed in my /etc/sysconfig/powersave/common BOOT_LOADER is set to
GRUB but I am using lilo. I get the lilo menue and can choose the
system, I want.

Sorry

Wilfried
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 08:09:39PM +0200, Pramod wrote:
> On 5/1/07, Wilfried Maschtera <[email protected]> wrote:
> >On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 02:04:30PM +0200, Martin Hofius wrote:
> >> Am Dienstag, 1. Mai 2007 12:03 schrieb Pramod:
> >> > Hi,
> >> > I have a Samsung X20 notebook with Suse 10.2 installed and I use KDE.
> >> > I have a couple of problems I would like to solve.
> >> >
> >> > 1) I would like to have the option of suspending Linux and resuming
> >> > Windows and vice versa
> >> > without booting either OS (as it used to be with Suse 10.0). At the
> >> > moment the default for
> >> > Linux is the session from which the suspend is called. So it resumes
> >> > to Suse by default. How can I make Grub give me the choice I want? It
> >> > looks like (to me, a non-expert) in /etc/pm/hooks/99Zgrub Linux is set
> >> > as the default using grubonce.
> >>
> >> Hi Pramod,
> >> sorry I have no other useful hints, but:  are Your shure to know what 
> >You are
> >> doing??? I remember the choice after suspend was disabled by SuSE to 
> >prevent
> >> the destroying of Your data...
> >> When one of the both systems is suspended, also the state information of 
> >the
> >> file systems are saved. If You would start an other system and change 
> >files
> >> in that filesystem, You may image what happens?
> >> If it was possible in SuSE 10.0 I gues it was a bug!?!
> >
> >Why should it be a bug? In my opinion if the state information of the
> >systems are stored in different locations suspending one system and
> >resuming another one is not risky but of course you should mount files
> >from a suspend system read/writeable. I think, windows will not use
> >the linux swap.
> >
> >Sometimes I suspend my linux and boot windows and then resume linux
> >again. Up to now I had no problems. Indeed I assume you can have
> >several linuxes and do the same provided each linux has its own swap
> >partition.
> >
> >Kind regards, Wilfried
> >
> 
> Hi,
> Thanks for the responses. In Suse 10.0, I had edited
> /etc/sysconfig/powersave/common
> and changed BOOT_LOADER="" to BOOT_LOADER="NONE". So yes, this was not
> enabled in the default installation. However, I never had problems
> with the file system.
> I also had fat32 partitions mounted and both Linux and Windows were happy 
> with
> this arrangement (at least for whatever I did, I never made extensive
> tests). Can't the two
> system save to different swaps as Wilfried suggested and share the
> file information via
> a common file system? Perhaps there is a problem if there are same
> files which are
> open in both and not saved?
> The advantage of being able to do this (suspending one OS and resuming
> another) is
> enormous for people wanting to try out Suse and not fully comfortable
> with it. And also
> for people like me...my wife sometimes want to use Yahoo messenger and
> we both have
> many apps open in Linux which we don't want to shut and restart.
>  Thanks and best regards,
>  Pramod
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