On Wednesday 2007-10-03 01:01:44 Leon Stringer wrote: > Jeremy Katz wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 22:02 +0100, Leon Stringer wrote: > >> I'm thinking of installing F8t1 on my laptop. Can anyone tell me if > >> there's been any movement on running GRUB after Fedora is hibernated. > >> IIRC this isn't shown because the user could choose a different kernel > >> losing any unsaved data from the hibernated session. > > > > Actually, the _bigger_ concern is that someone does exactly like you > > wants to and boots into another OS. And from that OS, they modify > > filesystems (maybe you have your ntfs filesystems mounted under Linux or > > you access the ext3 partitions from Windows) which then leads to > > significant filesystem corruption when you resume from hibernate. > > > >> However, this seems to be burdening the user with cumbersome > >> functionality whereas what it really needs is a technical solution. > > > > This is the technical solution. There's not really any other way to do it. > > > > Jeremy > > > > OK, but there's a thin line between protecting the user from themselves > and making it unusable. > ... There is, and you can get to grub at your own risk - hold down ctrl/shift or whatever it was when turning the laptop on. Be sure not to use any partition in both OS-es!!! Another way is to press Up/Down key just when turning the machine on... experiment, I don't have windows and found this just because I was curious enough ;-) > Sure I can mount other partion's FSes and mess with the data but users > who do this can be considered expert users who (should!) understand the > risks. > Happy hacking and luck! -- Regards, Doncho N. Gunchev, GPG key ID: 0EF40B9E, Key server: pgp.mit.edu -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
