Tim: >> It should do, and is easy enough to test (add the resume parameter to >> the kernel line, and put an entry into fstab for your swap partition). Michael Hennebry: > Alas, for some reason it didn't do. > My FC8 has a boot partition. > I tried both resume=/dev/hda5 and resume=/../dev/hda5 . > FC8 complained that it couldn't find either one. Aha! Try "/dev/sda5" instead of hda5. All drives got treated as SCSI a couple of versions back. It's a device name, not a path. And the resume partition is the swap partition, not the boot partition. > noresume got rid of the complaint, If you never intend to hibernate and resume, that's a reasonable solution. > but didn't solve the new mystery or cure > the supposed bad magic number on sda1. > > Is there a way to ask FC8 > What does it think the magic number should be? > What magic number is it getting? > From where is it getting the magic number? I don't know that one. You might want to a start a new subject with an appropriate subject line about the particular problem. Someone ignoring this thread might chime in. -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, all using Gnome in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list