apcstart.com — Declan Kennedy at APC Magazine has discovered that you don't need to reboot in order to dual-boot between Linux and Windows: you can switch between them without a reboot using hibernation if you have the right boot loader installed.
Aug 22, 2006 View in Crawl 4
chewie67Aug 22, 2006
Hibernation is almost as bad as rebooting.Good on him for finding this, but it's not much of a time savings.
Closed AccountAug 22, 2006
"Every time you make a decision like this in designing your software, God kills a Windows PC I maintain."That line cracked me up
slapoutAug 22, 2006
I discovered (accidently) that if I hibernate Windows with a Linux LiveCD in the drive then when I turn the machine back on, it will boot into the LiveCD. I can then reboot back into my windows session.
pxa270Aug 22, 2006
Some people love it. Some people think it sucks. They're both right, because it depends a lot on your hardware, drivers, and your BIOS implementation. Others already replied that some hardware doesn't stop/restart correctly (usually due to shoddy drivers). There's also the fact that some machines (like my old ThinkPad 600E) spend something like 30 seconds in the BIOS test alone, so waking from hibernation is dreadfully slow. On my ThinkPad X40 though, it's an absolute joy. The BIOS test takes about 5 seconds, the XP hibernation resume about 9, so I'm up in under 15 seconds. And it's reliable enough that I usually go for weeks without a real reboot.
mindfluxAug 22, 2006
Of course they will jackass. Hibernate keeps track of the state of your files. Changes to them when coming out of hybernate means something is 'askew'.Obvious meet mullet.
icecreamAug 22, 2006
Does say it would save time.. lol
jmank88Aug 22, 2006
I did this on accident one time, my laptop went into hibernation from low batt in windows, then when i started up grub came up and i went with linux. Then when i switched back later it just like popped into windows with the hibernation load bar. I havent been able to get it to it again though lol
xilonAug 23, 2006
Phew, and I thought it was because I did somethign wrong during my XGL/Compiz installation (mind you the first X Server crash was due to libglitz-glx1 not being installed, but when I got the second crash I was kinda surprised...Tisk tisk ubuntu... I would expect this from edgy but on a stable release?
d2ndAug 23, 2006
i use hibernation for my car pc (not a laptop), boot time is pretty important. Ive gone almost 2 months without a reboot, hibernating the machine each time the car turns off.USB is definitely sketch with hibernating, but if setup properly, and for select applications it's a thing of beauty.
rubberdoggydoAug 31, 2006
For all you guys bagging windows, here's a quick refresher. Installed Ubuntu the other week. Dual system with vista. Looked okay, if you like the retro windows95 look and feel. Call this system better than windows? Get a reality check. A week after installing it, it did some upgrade to itself, and on August 21, in the middle of all this windows bashing rot- it crapped itself. I know what UBUNTU stands for Unless Bloody Uninstalling Never Touch Ubuntu.
ninorNov 17, 2007
thank you
daveisferaNov 17, 2008
Poor hardware support from old devices is not a reason why the concept/software sucks.