GRUB after hibernate
Leon Stringer
leon.stringer at ntlworld.com
Wed Oct 3 18:44:14 UTC 2007
Doncho N. Gunchev wrote:
> On Wednesday 2007-10-03 01:01:44 Leon Stringer wrote:
>> Jeremy Katz wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 22:02 +0100, Leon Stringer wrote:
>>>> I'm thinking of installing F8t1 on my laptop. Can anyone tell me if
>>>> there's been any movement on running GRUB after Fedora is hibernated.
>>>> IIRC this isn't shown because the user could choose a different kernel
>>>> losing any unsaved data from the hibernated session.
>>> Actually, the _bigger_ concern is that someone does exactly like you
>>> wants to and boots into another OS. And from that OS, they modify
>>> filesystems (maybe you have your ntfs filesystems mounted under Linux or
>>> you access the ext3 partitions from Windows) which then leads to
>>> significant filesystem corruption when you resume from hibernate.
>>>
> ...
> There is, and you can get to grub at your own risk - hold down ctrl/shift
> or whatever it was when turning the laptop on. Be sure not to use any
> partition in both OS-es!!! Another way is to press Up/Down key just when
> turning the machine on... experiment, I don't have windows and found this
> just because I was curious enough ;-)
>
Thanks Doncho, that works for me, it's exactly what I was after!
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