hibernation/suspend issues are most likely related to how the BIOS deals with S1/S3 states. How old is this spare tower?
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Randall Whitman <[email protected]>wrote: > > FWIW to anyone... > I installed Ubuntu-9.04beta on a spare tower, > and among other things decided to test hibernate. > When I turned on the computer, it hung hard, no output at all. > on a whim, I zeroed out the swap partition (with DBAN <dban.org>), > after which ubuntu booted and I was able to log in. > Not that I had any data to preserve, but might be useful to know > if such happens in a different situation. > > /Randall > > > (p.s. this is not to imply that Jaunty hibernate hangs either less or more > than other releases; but rather to point out clearing swap.) > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >
