hibernate, then start Windows [SOLVED]

[James McKenzie]

Gianluca Sforna wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Greg Woods <woods at ucar.edu> wrote:
>   
>> This is in regard to the issue that, when Linux is hibernated, upon
>> reboot the thaw starts immediately and the grub menu is not presented.
>>     
>
> As far as I know, this is intentional and serves the purpose of
> preventing selection of the wrong kernel (not sure what would happen
> in that case, the best being it would do a regular, full boot)
>   
It is assumed that when you unhibernate (thaw) the system, you want to 
be back on the same OS you left.  It is unusual to want to hibernate 
Linux and then boot up Windows, but this has proven to be the case 
here.  Nice solution, BTW.

James McKenzie