Dual boot + hibernate

[Mike Leahy]

Hello list,

I'm just wondering if anyone knows a way to allow dual boot after 
hibernating.  I'm currently using FC6T2 on a dual boot with WinXP, and 
it's working pretty well overall.  However, I've noticed that if I 
hibernate (using the pm-hibernate command), when I reboot I no longer 
get the Grub interface that allows me to select an operating system.  I 
have no problem hibernating from windows and booting into linux though. 
  Is this an intentional feature?  Is there a way to boot into the WinXP 
OS anyway?

Thanks in advance,
Mike

[Leon Stringer]

On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 15:56 -0400, Mike Leahy wrote:
> I'm just wondering if anyone knows a way to allow dual boot after 
> hibernating.  I'm currently using FC6T2 on a dual boot with WinXP, and 
> it's working pretty well overall.  However, I've noticed that if I 
> hibernate (using the pm-hibernate command), when I reboot I no longer 
> get the Grub interface that allows me to select an operating system.  I 
> have no problem hibernating from windows and booting into linux though. 
>   Is this an intentional feature?  Is there a way to boot into the WinXP 
> OS anyway?

Yes, it's an intentional feature. I asked this a month ago and was told
what's "best" for me:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2006-July/msg00589.html

In fairness, this is done because if you upgrade your kernel and
hibernate, GRUB will use the new kernel by default which would almost
certainly fail to start post-hibernate, thus losing any unsaved work.

So, with the caveat that you should not hibernate after a kernel update:
> So to accomplish this you now need to move the file 01grub out
> of /etc/pm/hooks (or just comment the lines of course).

Is hibernate working for you with the latest packages? It stopped
working for me about four weeks ago...

[Gianluca Sforna]

On 8/24/06, Leon Stringer  wrote:
> In fairness, this is done because if you upgrade your kernel and
> hibernate, GRUB will use the new kernel by default which would almost
> certainly fail to start post-hibernate, thus losing any unsaved work.

Not that this is always working:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=202410

I am waiting for the next update to some some more tests.

However, I think this needs some refiniments: as more users have
suspend working, this is a question will be popping out more and more
often.