Roberto Ragusa wrote: > I think that the new kernel will simply refuse to load the hibernated > image and boot normally (as after an improper shutdown). > Right, but the image will be removed, so what was the point of hibernation? If you wanted to reboot into the new kernel anyway, a plain reboot should take less time > Yes. But if you do not have windows partitions mounted and you hibernate > and reboot to do something in windows, grub will immediately > try to resume, you understand what happens and try to shutdown everything > before the kernel actually runs. If you are lucky you power on > again, you manage to have to grub menu shown by pressing one key > and you boot windows and then resume Linux. If you are unlucky, > the resume image is not usable anymore (the system has been resumed and > then powered off) and you lose all the session you wanted to > preserve. Also, if you try to use a Live CD, it will most likely try to mount the swap partition, also potentially destroying the hibernated state. > And that's an additional case of "inexperienced users > can do stupid things, so we have to block experienced users > doing smart things". > (I used to run tuxonice and this "holding-hands" stuff was not there, > luckily). > That's what differentiates an amateur project from a polished professional one. The beginner project relies on the user to be smart enough to not do these things. But Fedora is used by a lot of different users, some are not as much computer-literate as you are. It has to put up guards against them. I'm not saying that option shouldn't be there, but I do believe it's a very sensible default. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
