On Sun, 7 Aug 2011 18:35:57 -0500 joshua stein <j...@openbsd.org> wrote:
> > This is semi-OT, but how does that work, actually? I mean, I know how > > suspend to disk works in principle, but if it's done purely from the > > BIOS, wouldn't the BIOS need to know about (and use) a special > > partition to store the RAM contents? Otherwise, how would the BIOS > > know where to store the RAM contents in the absence of OS involvement? > > on at least older thinkpads, it would swap to an msdos partition > that had a specially-formatted "save2dsk.bin" file. tphdisk in the > ports tree can be used for that. Don't forget to consider the security implications of hibernate which greatly outweigh the security implications of suspend. Kc
