Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:26:58 +0100 From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: depocatcher@gmail.com Cc: Freebsd questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Hibernation Message-ID: <20100818112658.00004b45@unknown> In-Reply-To: <4C6B9FF0.3040205@gmail.com> References: <4C6B9FF0.3040205@gmail.com>
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On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 03:55:12 -0500 Depo Catcher <depocatcher@gmail.com> wrote: > I can't find any good docs or guides to this. I checked the > handbook, but had a bunch of references to 5.x. > Can anyone point me to the right direction? > > I'd like to go with FreeBSD 8.1 amd64 for my next system. > Hibernation and Wake on Lan would both be useful. The only support for hibernation is via the BIOS with a special partition. Unfortunately as far as I know it rarely, if ever, works. Windows (I don't know about Linux) bypasses the BIOS/ACPI and just dumps the contents of memory to disk before powering off. -- Bruce Cran
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