fuego Posted May 14, 2006 Report Share Posted May 14, 2006 Hi guys and gals, I have got a nice little dual boot scenario going on my laptop and I love it. Windows sucks but I need it for work , Mandriva is fun and interesting but still doesn't cover all my bases. The PROBLEM is that when windows goes in hibernation (which is a function I use alot as I travel about a bit) I seem to lose my mandriva to some extent. I can still choose to boot mandriva but then it will only boot for about 7-8 seconds and then stall. As far as I can tell it's due to the hibernate. Im sure there must be someone who has nailed this problem. Please share with me if you have. ta. ~fuego~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted May 14, 2006 Report Share Posted May 14, 2006 Do not hibernate windows and start mandriva and vice versa. As a general rule of thumb, it's a bad thing to do this for a number of reasons. The first that springs to mind is that generally, neither operating system clean mounts it's filesystems on a restore, which due to the possibility of the filesystem being changed by another operating system, or buffers/caches not being flushed, can result in nasty filesystem corruption. James Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuego Posted May 14, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 14, 2006 I am not starting linux after the win goes into hibernation as when I boot, it straight away restores the windows session. And I don't use the hibernate on mandriva yet but would like to if I can get both systems reliable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuego Posted May 21, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 21, 2006 Surely someone else has faced this problem with a dual boot of XP and Mandriva on a laptop? Even if you haven't solved the problem I would be interested in swapping notes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted May 21, 2006 Report Share Posted May 21, 2006 I think what iphitus means is when you hibernate you boot fully back into windows and do a shutdown... If you are doing this and its still hanging then I would do a full shutdown and then power cycle. If you have peripherals Windows shuts down then the power cycle may be needed to re-initialise them. If you want a different solution then another way is run mandriva as the primary OS and use a Win VMWARE sesssion ... this at least gives you a quick suspend for the XP and you only need to work on the mandiva suspend? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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