Good news I suppose. The new kernel resumes from suspend with the drive connected and/or mounted. Just be sure I installed the right thing: bigboy:~ # cat /proc/cmdline BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.16.7-1.gf382e20-desktop root=UUID=b914b0a0-964b-4fa7-91c9-a0f8f0b57fcf quiet resume=/dev/sda1 splash=silent quiet showopts crashkernel=256M-:128M clocksource=tsc vga=792 Is there anything else you need from my end ? What's the release cycle for these fixes? I'm in no hurry, but I'd like to know when to stop worrying about resume.