Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2086 mails)

[Tero Pesonen <tero.pesonen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 20 August 2007, Theo Wollenleben wrote:
> I have a problem with suspend to disk after a kernel update under SUSE
> 10.1. Using kernel-default-2.6.16.13-4 there is no problem with my hard
> drive. With the updated kernel version 2.6.16.21-0.13 and all following
> versions (including 2.6.16.27-989.2 from the Build Service) loading of
> the boot loader and the linux kernel is very slow while resuming after
> suspend to disk. This seems to be a hard drive problem which also
> appeared on my system after a system freeze (where the operating system
> couldn't access the hard disk properly). Could it be that suspend to
> disk with the updated kernel leaves the hard drive in some improper
> state? Is there a solution to the problem?

I've seen this same (?) behaviour on upenSUSE 10.2 after a system freeze: 
GRUB won't load anymore after a hard reboot, or if it loads, only after a 
long while. No matter what you do, after certain freezes it simply won't 
load. The only way to get GRUB back is to use the installer CD and ask it 
to rewrite GRUB even though it won't see any problem with the bootloader 
or the disks. 10.2 kernel versions seems to have had no effect. 

I never suspend to disk, though, and I only have IDE drives.

I don't think this is a hard disk issue: I had this same master/boot hard 
disk while on SUSE 9.3 and never saw this issue there after a system 
freeze. GRUB always came up equally fast and always loaded without 
hiccups. System freezes were much less common on SUSE 9.3, of course, but 
still happened a few times. I've also heard of others who have seen this 
same "GRUB won't load" behaviour on openSUSE 10.2 on totally different 
hardware.

Regards,
Tero Pesonen
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