RHEL 4 & Hibernate

[dave at math.mit.edu (David Backeberg)]

This doesn't answer your question, but people who hate Redhat will be 
amused to know that RHEL4 FINALLY provides the ability out of the box to 
shut off SMP machines when the user issues the poweroff command. This 
support went stable in kernel.org's kernel in 2.4.22 if I remember 
correctly, which was over a year ago. This is particularly amusing when 
one considers RHEL is the "premiere" Redhat distribution aimed at 
enterprise systems.

Previously, the system would shutdown all commands and cowardly print 
"poweroff" to the screen, remaining on until somebody physically went to 
the system. In this state the system also ignores WOL requests, since the 
system isn't actually powered off.

-- 
David Backeberg (dave at math.mit.edu)
Network Staff Assistant
MIT Math Dept.
Rm. 2-332            (617) 253-4995

On Sun, 1 May 2005, Anthony Gabrielson wrote:

> Hello,
> 	I'm running CentOS 4, an RHEL 4 clone, on a Dell Latitude D810 M70
> laptop and I'm looking for a few pointers on hibernation.
>
> On a side note, all of the hardware on this laptop works great and came to
> life quickly.  Which for a new laptop seems impressive to me.
>
> Thanks,
> Anthony
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