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miktore

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Registered: 2014-01-26

Posts: 16

Regarding Hibernation

Hello Arch Community,

I am trying to enable hibernate, I added the resume option in the kernel paramters in GRUB, still unsuccessful; after some googling, I guess now that the problem is within my /etc/mkinitcpio.conf; here is my hooks line

HOOKS="base udev autodetect modconf block filesystems keyboard fsck"

and for further info, I think that swap partition is on as my /proc/swaps

Filename                                Type            Size    Used    Priority
/dev/sda6                               partition       4094972 0       -1

I think that the "resume" hook should be added; so where should I insert it? is the order important? and, should I run "mkinitcpio -p linux" after modifying the mkinitcpio.conf file?

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Regarding Hibernation

All your questions are answered in the wiki - always look there first.

miktore

Member

Registered: 2014-01-26

Posts: 16

Re: Regarding Hibernation

All your questions are answered in the wiki - always look there first.

Oh I am sorry, I have read it but I didn't notice that part

WonderWoofy

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From: Los Gatos, CA

Registered: 2012-05-19

Posts: 8,414

Re: Regarding Hibernation

You should know that suspend to disk (hibernation) on Linux is mediocre at best.  There are certainly some machines where it seems to work fine, but on every machine I have tried on during my time with Linux has not been so good.

So I wish you luck, but don't be surprised if things turn out to be a bit wonky.  I have been using suspend to RAM successfully for years without issue (though bugs sometimes pop up for that as well).