booting notebooks vs. suspend (was Re: boot faster)

[Ralf Ertzinger]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 06:13:27PM +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> Umm... I rarely boot my machines (once in a couple of months), but I'd
> venture to guess that if suspend-resume was bullet-proof, people would
> have rebooted their machine only in the cases above, which are pretty
> rare events for most Linux users.
> Plus, I might be wrong here, but doesn't suspend to disk theoretically
> allows you to suspend, switch to Windows (*spit!), and pick up where you
> left once you switch back to Linux?

As long as windows leaves the Linux partitions alone that should work.