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From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
To: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@clear.net.nz>, Shaheed <srhaque@iee.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Patrick's Test9 suspend code.
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 00:46:32 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200311210046.32588.rob@landley.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1069368082.2239.66.camel@laptop-linux>

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


  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-11-21  6:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-20 17:26 Patrick's Test9 suspend code Shaheed
2003-11-20 19:39 ` Rob Landley
2003-11-20 22:33   ` Shaheed
2003-11-20 22:41     ` Nigel Cunningham
2003-11-20 23:02       ` Shaheed
2003-11-21  6:46       ` Rob Landley [this message]
2003-11-21 20:09         ` Nigel Cunningham
2003-11-21  0:06 ` Pavel Machek
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-11-19 13:15 Samium Gromoff
2003-11-19 19:06 ` Pavel Machek
2003-11-09 10:04 Rob Landley
2003-11-13 13:08 ` Pavel Machek
2003-11-16  0:30   ` Rob Landley
2003-11-16 13:13     ` Pavel Machek
2003-11-17  2:38       ` Rob Landley
2003-11-17  8:42         ` Pavel Machek
2003-11-17 16:45         ` Patrick Mochel
2003-11-17 21:11           ` Rob Landley
2003-11-18 12:02           ` Rob Landley
2003-11-18 18:22             ` Pavel Machek
2003-11-18 22:12               ` Rob Landley
2003-11-18 23:21                 ` Pavel Machek
2003-11-19  5:26                   ` Rob Landley
2003-11-19  9:18                     ` Pavel Machek
2003-11-19  9:41                       ` Rob Landley

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