From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 18 10:26:56 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4FBE1065673 for ; Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:26:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (muon.cran.org.uk [204.109.60.94]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95B208FC1C for ; Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:26:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from unknown (client-86-31-88-103.midd.adsl.virginmedia.com [86.31.88.103]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 44B505F65; Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:26:47 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:26:58 +0100 From: Bruce Cran To: depocatcher@gmail.com Message-ID: <20100818112658.00004b45@unknown> In-Reply-To: <4C6B9FF0.3040205@gmail.com> References: <4C6B9FF0.3040205@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.4cvs1 (GTK+ 2.16.0; i586-pc-mingw32msvc) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Freebsd questions Subject: Re: Hibernation X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:26:56 -0000 On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 03:55:12 -0500 Depo Catcher 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