Re: Patrick's Test9 suspend code.

Rob Landley
2003-11-21T06:55:54Z

On Thursday 20 November 2003 16:41, Nigel Cunningham wrote:

> Whenever I switch from testing a 2.4 kernel to testing 2.6, I do a clean
> boot for precisely this reason. I'd love it if I could just suspend 2.4,
> boot the new 2.6 kernel, see if it suspends properly (to a different
> swap, of course) and then resume the original 2.4 kernel. But doing so
> would only work if I mounted 2.6 entirely read only, which is not what
> you seem to be planning.

You could of course have two completely different sets of root and swap
partitions, if you have the disk space. (And either not sharing /home or
unmount it before suspending...)

Assuming you have the disk space, of course. :)

Rob