[plug] Nifty idea for dual booters

[Brad Campbell]

Craig Ringer wrote:

> Works really well. I just whacked win2k on my laptop (the only MS OS
> I'll willingly use as secondary, but not SP2 thanks, allergic to evil
> EULAs) and discovered that I can hibernate win2k, reboot into linux,
> work, then reboot back into win2k when I need the modem and it restores
> from hibernation as if nothing had happened. This rocks. I can't wait
> for full, reliable ACPI for linux so I can do this in the other
> direction too.

I simply use the software suspend patch in my kernel..
echo "1 0 0" > /proc/sys/kernel/swsusp
and it suspends to disk.

I do have to exit win4lin first though as that will not suspend.
Well, it suspends but dies on restore. Rest of the system goes fine.

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