On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:54 PM, Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I ran hibernate once unsuccessfully. I forgot to put "resume=" into > my lilo.conf (oops). I finally did that, but now, hiberate gets to... > > hibernate: Running /usr/sbin/s2disk ... > s2disk: Could not use the resume device (try swapon -a). Reason: No such > device > > ...and backs out gracefully. According to "fdisk -l", swap is there... > > > [d530][root][~] fdisk -l > > Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > Disk identifier: 0xd0000000 > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 1 60801 488384001 5 Extended > /dev/sda5 1 62 497952 83 Linux > /dev/sda6 63 549 3911796 82 Linux swap / Solaris > /dev/sda7 550 60801 483974158+ 83 Linux > > ...but according to swapon, it's not... > > > [d530][root][~] swapon -a > swapon: /dev/sda6: Invalid argument > > > What did I did? And how do I straighten it out?
Umm... if you're hibernating to the same swap partition you're using when the system's live... I'm pretty sure you can't do that... even if everything does manage to fit, having sort out what belongs back in ram and what doesn't ... it's not a very sane thing to expect the kernel+userspace tools there to do. If I recall from last time I considered setting it up on my system, software hibernate needs an otherwise unused swap partition that's just a little bigger than the amount of physical ram in your system. -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy
