Clear the swap partition

[jdion81]

I have been messing with acpi and klaptop. I have gotten acpi to work. I told the computer to hibernate. It did, but now when I start the computer it starts to resume from the hibernation data but then reboots itself. It will stay in this reboot cycle until the computer is powered off. How can I remove the hibernation data (assumingly) in the swap partition?

[Cannonfodder]

You can always boot off of CD1, do an install of Mandrake (just a few steps in), when you get to the partitioning screen, select custom partitioning. This will open diskdrake, locate your swap partition (in green) and format it. Then just hit the power button to abort the installation (you don't really want to do that). GIve it a shot..

[iphitus]

orrrrrrrrr the easy way

 

hit escape at lilo and type 'linux noresume' or 'linux noresume2'

 

I am not sure which one does the trick. Add any other options that you normally use as well such as acpi=off, though it wil boot fine without. That will bypass the hibernate. To clean the swap (if that doesnt do it)

 

mkswap /dev/hdXX

swapon /dev/hdXX

 

Have fun!

 

iphitus

[arthur]

noresume2 is only for software suspend 2.

 

to exit the Mandrake setup as cannonfodder explained, just hit ctrl-alt-backspace, then reboot. I haven't tried it but alt-sysrq-b should also work.

[bvc]

SEE: man swapon

 

or from console/init 3 do

init 1

then

init 3

to get everything back up.