From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 17 0:35:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from medulla.hippocampus.net (medulla.hippocampus.net [204.138.241.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E490715602 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 00:35:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marc@netstor.com) Received: from localhost (marc@localhost) by medulla.hippocampus.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id DAA09675; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 03:40:22 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 03:40:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Marc Nicholas X-Sender: marc@medulla.hippocampus.net To: Andrzej Bialecki Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Saving system image to disk (NOT on a laptop) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wasn't there already a project that did this??? The project name escapes me, but I believe it was linked from the FreeBSD Projects page... -marc ---------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Nicholas netSTOR Technologies, Inc. http://www.netstor.com "Fast, Expandable and Affordable Internet Caching Products" 1.877.464.4776 416.979.9000 fax: 416.979.8223 cell: 416.346.9255 On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > Hi, > > To all you low-level kernel and bootloader hackers: what would it take to > save and restore a running system image (presumably from dedicated raw > partition) so that the system would continue where it left before reboot? > > It doesn't sound that difficult to me - after all, laptops somehow do it - > but I know too little low-level stuff to try implementing it myself... > > Any comments? Some code? ;-) > > > Andrzej Bialecki > > // WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) > // ------------------------------------------------------------------- > // ------ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org -------- > // --- Small & Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ ---- > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message