Hello, the enclosed patch documents the Linux kernel's 'resume' boot parameter. The patch is to be applied to the 'bootparam.7' man page, as found in version 3.23 of the man-pages. The reported information was obtained from "The Linux BootPrompt-HowTo" by Paul Gortmaker (v1.4, Mar 21, 2003) and tested on Slackware 12.2 using version 2.6.27.7 of the Linux kernel. Regards, Andrea Remondini -----BEGIN DIFF----- --- bootparam.7 2009-11-10 19:59:36.000000000 +0100 +++ bootparam.7.new 2009-11-10 20:58:23.000000000 +0100 @@ -221,6 +221,12 @@ The choice between read-only and read/write can also be set using .BR rdev (8). .TP +.B "'resume=...'" +This tells the kernel the location of the suspend-to-disk data that you want the machine to resume from after hibernation. +Usually, it is the same as your swap partition or file. Example: +.IP +.BI resume= /dev/hda2 +.TP .B "'reserve=...'" This is used to protect I/O port regions from probes. The form of the command is: ------END DIFF------ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
