booting notebooks vs. suspend (was Re: boot faster)

[Keith Sharp]

On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 17:21 +0100, Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 06:13:27PM +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> > Umm... I rarely boot my machines (once in a couple of months), but I'd
> > venture to guess that if suspend-resume was bullet-proof, people would
> > have rebooted their machine only in the cases above, which are pretty
> > rare events for most Linux users.
> > Plus, I might be wrong here, but doesn't suspend to disk theoretically
> > allows you to suspend, switch to Windows (*spit!), and pick up where you
> > left once you switch back to Linux?
> 
> As long as windows leaves the Linux partitions alone that should work.

I can confirm that this works.  You can even suspend (hibernate) in
Windows as well :-)

Keith.