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Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Sat Aug 13 17:30:36 UTC 2005


On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 12:27:03PM -0500, Justin Conover wrote:
 > On 8/13/05, Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> wrote:
 > > On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 12:08:01PM -0500, Justin Conover wrote:
 > > 
 > >  > Swap on RAID devices *should* work, but is untested so far.
 > >  >
 > >  > I tested this on a box with a softraid/lvm   "aic7xxx" controller and
 > >  > recieved a kernel panic.  I just followed these steps
 > >  >
 > >  > echo platform > /sys/power/disk
 > >  > echo disk > /sys/power/state
 > >  >
 > >  > Should I have done something different?
 > >  >
 > >  > grep swap /etc/fstab
 > >  > /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
 > >  >
 > >  > Would you like the output on screen from kernel panic?
 > > 
 > > Yes please, drop it in bugzilla, and I'll take a look
 > > (but probably not before monday)
 > > 
 > > Thanks for testing.
 > > 
 > >                 Dave
 > > 
 > You know, this might sound stupid but I'm not actually sure if this
 > box supports apic/apm, what ever the suspend is using.  I really
 > didn't see any options in the BIOS

It shouldn't need too much help from the BIOS. Of course the more
help the BIOS does give us the better.  If you've got stuff in /proc/acpi/
(any x86 box built in the last 5 years will have it) then you should
be fine.

		Dave





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