[opensuse] Dual boot and suspend to disk
I am using openSUSE 11.1 (+KDE3) in dual boot with Windows XP and grub as my boot manager. I would like to be able to suspend suse to disk, reboot to Windows, use Windows for a while, and reboot again to resume using suse. Everything works fine, except that after suspending suse and turning the computer back on grub automatically resumes suse. What do I need to change to prevent that and be able to choose to start Windows instead of resuming suse? -- skx. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 12 February 2009 12:08:12 pm skx wrote:
I am using openSUSE 11.1 (+KDE3) in dual boot with Windows XP and grub as my boot manager.
I would like to be able to suspend suse to disk, reboot to Windows, use Windows for a while, and reboot again to resume using suse. Everything works fine, except that after suspending suse and turning the computer back on grub automatically resumes suse.
What do I need to change to prevent that and be able to choose to start Windows instead of resuming suse?
Check in /boot/grub/menu.lst that timeout does not =0 Something sensible like 3 or 5 should give you plenty of time to down arrow to the selection of your choice, or space bar to stop the timer and think. HTH, -- Jim Barnes -- Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet, you can't win. -Lazarus Long -- Linux 2.6.27-1-mepis-smp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday, 2009-02-12 at 20:08 +0100, skx wrote:
I am using openSUSE 11.1 (+KDE3) in dual boot with Windows XP and grub as my boot manager.
I would like to be able to suspend suse to disk, reboot to Windows, use Windows for a while, and reboot again to resume using suse. Everything works fine, except that after suspending suse and turning the computer back on grub automatically resumes suse.
What do I need to change to prevent that and be able to choose to start Windows instead of resuming suse?
Disable the script "/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/99Zgrub", but you must be aware of the dangers if you mount any filesystem that was already mounted by the other OS. More info: thread "No grub menu in11.1" of last December. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkmU1HwACgkQtTMYHG2NR9VbYACfYA1WgMqpqFd2ExJlNcAt4uOR 6iIAn22t3lH0yu8Gql00swz2RLQgo7P8 =W1MX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Carlos E. R. wrote/napisał(a):
What do I need to change to prevent that and be able to choose to start Windows instead of resuming suse?
Disable the script "/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/99Zgrub", but you must be aware of the dangers if you mount any filesystem that was already mounted by the other OS.
More info: thread "No grub menu in11.1" of last December.
Thanks! -- skx. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
skx wrote:
I am using openSUSE 11.1 (+KDE3) in dual boot with Windows XP and grub as my boot manager.
I would like to be able to suspend suse to disk, reboot to Windows, use Windows for a while, and reboot again to resume using suse. Everything works fine, except that after suspending suse and turning the computer back on grub automatically resumes suse.
What do I need to change to prevent that and be able to choose to start Windows instead of resuming suse?
It works fine the other way as I was surprised to learn. I had no intention of ever doing it, and I'm still not sure how I did it, but I shut my daughters computer down booted linux and then next time windows was started, it didn't boot, it resumed which was fascinating. (If somebody would put out Strawberry Shortcake for Linux, I could get rid of windows;-) Startup took all of 10-15 seconds to get to the full desktop. If you could do that with opensuse, that would be excellent. Give us the info if you get it working. Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Quoting skx
I am using openSUSE 11.1 (+KDE3) in dual boot with Windows XP and grub as my boot manager.
I would like to be able to suspend suse to disk, reboot to Windows, use Windows for a while, and reboot again to resume using suse. Everything works fine, except that after suspending suse and turning the computer back on grub automatically resumes suse.
My experience with Windows XP and SuSE 10.3 on a IBM Thinkpad T41 was that this is a very bad idea. By the time I quit doing it, I had re-installed Windows 4 times and had to cleanup Linux filesystem corruption twice. Both OSes seem to assume some retention of hardware state. Since I've stopped switching OS while suspended to disk, no corruption of Linux filesystems. The Intel IWP2100 wireless appears to be the problem. Lately enabling it under Windows XP promptly BSODs. And I think leaving it running under Linux before switching OS leads to a BSOD on Windows boot. Things may have improved with newer or different hardware, though with this hardware it seems to be getting worse on the Windows XP side. Have you tried Strawberry Shortcake in Wine or Crossover Office? With the latter, we've been able to run Quicken, one of the two necessary Windows application in my household (the other is WordPerfect 5.1 under DOSbox). There are many other virtualization/emulation solutions: VMware, VirtualBox, etc. HTH, Jeffrey -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
Have you tried Strawberry Shortcake in Wine or Crossover Office? With the latter, we've been able to run Quicken, one of the two necessary Windows application in my household (the other is WordPerfect 5.1 under DOSbox).
There are many other virtualization/emulation solutions: VMware, VirtualBox, etc.
Oh no no no no. Risk polluting one of my virtualized OS with one of those full-screen dos like games? Oh no no no no no.... ;-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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