Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:09:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: david@lang.hm
To: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@crca.org.au>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] kexec jump -v9
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On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Nigel Cunningham wrote:

> 3. Usability.
>
> Right now, kexec based hibernation looks quite complicated to configure,
> and the user is apparently going to have to remember to boot a different
> kernel or at least a different bootloader entry in order to resume. Not
> a plus. It would be good if you could find a way to use one bootloader
> entry, resuming if there's an image, booting normally if there's not.

I don't see any reason why this couldn't be done with an initrd to decide 
if you are doing a normal boot or a restore.

David Lang
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