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From: "Anthony E. Caudel" <acaudel@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] System Suspend...kind of OT
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 05:00:02
Message-Id: 447E72FA.4030404@gt.rr.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] System Suspend...kind of OT by James Colby
1 James Colby wrote:
2 > List members -
3 >
4 > I have a laptop that I dual boot with windows and gentoo. My gentoo
5 > installation has software suspend working. When I run the hibernate
6 > script the system hibernates and then powers down. When I press the
7 > power button on my laptop I am then presented with my lilo boot menu
8 > and I can choose Gentoo, and resume my session.
9 >
10 > Now when I boot into windows and I suspend my session...the session
11 > suspends and my system powers off. When I press the power button the
12 > system automatically resumes my windows session and I am never
13 > presented with the lilo menu. Is there a change that I could make to
14 > my windows suspend options so that when I press the power button I am
15 > presented with the lilo boot menu and I can choose to resume either
16 > windows or gentoo.
17 >
18 > Thanks for any input that you may have, and I apologize if this is too
19 > off topic for this list.
20 >
21 > -James
22 When Windows _SUSPENDS_ (we're not talking hibernate right?), it never
23 relaay stops running. It shuts down the display and the hard drives and
24 sort of goes to sleep. So when you "power" back up, it simply resumes.
25 It does not reboot.
26
27 Tony
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31 Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
32 -- Benjamin Franklin
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