[arch-general] Was the kernel suspend to disk feature removed on 2.6.32.8-1

[Ray Kohler]

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Javier Vasquez
<j.e.vasquez.v at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Previously I was having the following settings:
>
> /etc/default/grub
> ----------------------
> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT='resume=/dev/sda5'
>
> grub.cfg
> -----------
> linux   /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda7 ro  resume=/dev/sda5
>
> I have installed:
>
> acpitool 0.5.1-1
> kernel26 2.6.32.8-1
>
> And fro quiet a long time I've been using the kernel suspend feature
> through acpitool, so in order to suspend I've always done:
>
> acpitool -S
>
> As of now, it seems storing the state into the swap area is working.
> Problem is that when booting, the kernel is not even trying to see if
> there's state stored in the swap, since I don't see any message about
> it, and all I'm getting is plain boot.
>
> So I suspect the kernel is not compiled with built in support for
> suspend to disk.  Is this true?

Add the "resume" hook to the end of the HOOKS list in
/etc/mkinitcpio.conf and rebuild your initramfs. This has to be added
manually now with the non-klibc mkinitcpio.