TuxOnIce HOWTO

Florent Chabaud, Nigel Cunningham, Bernard Blackham

1. Introduction

• 1.1 What is TuxOnIce?
• 1.2 Copyright (skip this if you're in a hurry)
• 1.3 Why was this document written?

2. Overview

• 2.1 Kernel support
• 2.2 Requirements
• 2.3 Compiling the kernel
• 2.4 Patching the kernel
• 2.5 Installing the new kernel

3. Testing hibernation

• 3.1 Installing the hibernate script
• 3.2 Hibernating in text mode
• 3.3 Hibernating with X running

4. Tweaking

• 4.1 Hibernate script configuration
• 4.2 Enabling debugging and tuning the system (the sysfs interface)
• 4.3 TuxOnIce hotkeys
• 4.4 Avoiding data loss

5. Troubleshooting

• 5.1 It panics!
• 5.2 It hangs!
• 5.3 Hibernating in a minimalist environment
• 5.4 Asking for help

6. How it works

7. Other configurations

• 7.1 TuxOnIce compiled as modules (after 2.2.9)
• 7.2 Using a swapfile
• 7.3 Swap on LVM/dm-crypt
• 7.4 Using an initrd/initramfs but TuxOnIce compiled in
• 7.5 Keep image mode