windows has hibernation mode ! Is there anyone who knows about how it works ? I think it uses the bios apm ! (this might be a guess but windows boots up much faster when coming out of hibernation ) do we have anything like that in Linux ?? i have not heard of it ? rpm On Monday 22 April 2002 12:06 pm, Erik Mouw wrote: > On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 10:46:59PM +0200, Stijn Vander Maelen wrote: > > Interesting stuff, however, I wonder where the bios stores the memory > > contents? Suppose I got 512 MB ram, where does the bios write the data? > > Using the regular filesystem or on a special part of the harddisk. Maybe > > a bit OT but I have no clue here... > > It either stores the RAM contents in a special partition, or in the > contiguous file "hiberfil.sys" on the first FAT partition. > > > Erik -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
