Hibernate and boot to another OS?

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From: "Tom Horsley" <tom.horsley at att.net>
Sent: Sunday, 2008, September 21 09:16


> On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 03:13:27 -0430
> "Patrick O'Callaghan" <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> This makes absolutely no sense. Do you understand what hibernation is?
> 
> Why does it make no sense? Hibernation just stores the system state
> to the swap area. As long as you have different swap areas setup for
> different systems (and don't share partitions and change things
> out from under the other system), I'd think it could work just fine
> (though be a little weird :-).

If you share a file system bewteen the two installs and you make any
change, perhaps even as small as a date stamp, you are potentially in
for a world of hurt.

Besides, if you hibernate while compiling the compiling stops. So you'd
have lots and lots of time for game play but your boss might discuss
your reduced productivity with you.

{^_-}