Why do you need anything in the kernel commandlindline? Everything is done either in the kernel config or in hibernate.conf. "make menuconfig" on my machine goes like so...
========================================= Power management and ACPI options ---> [*] Power Management support [ ] Power Management Debug Support [ ] Suspend to RAM and standby [*] Hibernation (aka 'suspend to disk') (/dev/sda6) Default resume partition ========================================= Your system should have /dev/sda5. I ran "emerge hibernate-script" and then executed "rc-update add hibernate-cleanup boot" so that when the machine comes up from "reboot" or "halt -p", it doesn't try to load the swap file as memory state. Here are the uncommented lines in my hibernate.conf. The last 4 lines are specific to my machine, and may not apply to yours. It works great for me. TryMethod disk.conf Distribution gentoo DownInterfaces auto PowerdownMethod shutdown UseSysfsPowerState disk UpInterfaces auto OnResume 99 chvt 1 OnResume 98 setfont lat1-10 OnResume 97 /etc/init.d/sshd restart OnResume 96 alsactl restore -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>