Re: Fast Boot

[Chuck Carlson]

On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Cary O'Brien wrote:

> The fastest linux to power up that I have ever seen is my Toshiba
> laptop.  It doesn't boot, but keeps system ram intact.  So I power it
> up and it is exactly where it was when I shut it off.  Well, except
> that I have to reset (/etc/cardctl reset) the PCMCIA lan card.
> 
> Does this help?
> 
> -- cary

Yes it does help, and also brings up another thought.  I recall that
one could take a snapshot of a wintel pc (memory and regs), write it to
disk, power down and up, reload the snapshot, and you were up and running
from where you left off.  Is there anything like this in the Linux
world?

Chuck