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ghare

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Registered: 2009-02-24

Posts: 2

Supsend / Resume from disk

This may seem like a silly question, but has anyone tried the following, or know how I might go about trying it?

Once Arch is installed and working, is it possible to build an image as per suspend-to-disk, write this image to a read-only area of the disk and then instead of booting up as per normal, resume from this image each time you startup?

My theory being that if you had fixed hardware and want a default startup state (i.e. a set-top-box type arrangement ).  You could boot much faster as no hardware detection etc needs to be done.

Thanks,

George

Ranguvar

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Registered: 2008-08-12

Posts: 2,549

Re: Supsend / Resume from disk

Should be - wouldn't that be the same thing as setting up suspend-to-disk and then just always using that instead of shutting down or rebooting?

ghare

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Registered: 2009-02-24

Posts: 2

Re: Supsend / Resume from disk

Almost, if the power stays on and you have the opportunity to tell it to suspend then no problem.  In the case where the power goes off etc, I was looking to use the R-O image to resume from.