Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Jul 2001 01:24:17 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | swsusp again [was Re: Switching Kernels without Rebooting?] |
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Hi!
> What I'd *really* like (but don't see how to get there) would be a "save > system state, shutdown, change kernel and/or hardware, reboot, restore > state" system (where state is like "I'm logged in on this console, in this > current directory, and under X I have Netscape running and this page > displayed" but I don't care about the exact state of Squid or even if my > ISDN line is dialled in, because those "fix themselves").
Suspend-to-disk, change hardware, restore-from-disk, load neccessary modules seems quite easy to do with swsusp. It is very different from suspend-to-disk, change kernel, restore-from-disk (which is guaranteed to kill you if kernel changes size).
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