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[Pramod <mail2pramod@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Wilfried. Perhaps I'll give Lilo a try.
 Best,
 Pramod

On 5/1/07, Wilfried Maschtera <wilfried.maschtera@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I am still using SuSe 9.3. Therefore I can´t give you any hints.
> Indeed in my /etc/sysconfig/powersave/common BOOT_LOADER is set to
> GRUB but I am using lilo. I get the lilo menue and can choose the
> system, I want.
>
> Sorry
>
> Wilfried
> On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 08:09:39PM +0200, Pramod wrote:
> > On 5/1/07, Wilfried Maschtera <wilfried.maschtera@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 02:04:30PM +0200, Martin Hofius wrote:
> > >> Am Dienstag, 1. Mai 2007 12:03 schrieb Pramod:
> > >> > Hi,
> > >> > I have a Samsung X20 notebook with Suse 10.2 installed and I use KDE.
> > >> > I have a couple of problems I would like to solve.
> > >> >
> > >> > 1) I would like to have the option of suspending Linux and resuming
> > >> > Windows and vice versa
> > >> > without booting either OS (as it used to be with Suse 10.0). At the
> > >> > moment the default for
> > >> > Linux is the session from which the suspend is called. So it resumes
> > >> > to Suse by default. How can I make Grub give me the choice I want? It
> > >> > looks like (to me, a non-expert) in /etc/pm/hooks/99Zgrub Linux is set
> > >> > as the default using grubonce.
> > >>
> > >> Hi Pramod,
> > >> sorry I have no other useful hints, but:  are Your shure to know what
> > >You are
> > >> doing??? I remember the choice after suspend was disabled by SuSE to
> > >prevent
> > >> the destroying of Your data...
> > >> When one of the both systems is suspended, also the state information of
> > >the
> > >> file systems are saved. If You would start an other system and change
> > >files
> > >> in that filesystem, You may image what happens?
> > >> If it was possible in SuSE 10.0 I gues it was a bug!?!
> > >
> > >Why should it be a bug? In my opinion if the state information of the
> > >systems are stored in different locations suspending one system and
> > >resuming another one is not risky but of course you should mount files
> > >from a suspend system read/writeable. I think, windows will not use
> > >the linux swap.
> > >
> > >Sometimes I suspend my linux and boot windows and then resume linux
> > >again. Up to now I had no problems. Indeed I assume you can have
> > >several linuxes and do the same provided each linux has its own swap
> > >partition.
> > >
> > >Kind regards, Wilfried
> > >
> >
> > Hi,
> > Thanks for the responses. In Suse 10.0, I had edited
> > /etc/sysconfig/powersave/common
> > and changed BOOT_LOADER="" to BOOT_LOADER="NONE". So yes, this was not
> > enabled in the default installation. However, I never had problems
> > with the file system.
> > I also had fat32 partitions mounted and both Linux and Windows were happy
> > with
> > this arrangement (at least for whatever I did, I never made extensive
> > tests). Can't the two
> > system save to different swaps as Wilfried suggested and share the
> > file information via
> > a common file system? Perhaps there is a problem if there are same
> > files which are
> > open in both and not saved?
> > The advantage of being able to do this (suspending one OS and resuming
> > another) is
> > enormous for people wanting to try out Suse and not fully comfortable
> > with it. And also
> > for people like me...my wife sometimes want to use Yahoo messenger and
> > we both have
> > many apps open in Linux which we don't want to shut and restart.
> >  Thanks and best regards,
> >  Pramod
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