Comment 32 for bug 301353

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Paul Swanson (paul-swanson) wrote : Re: HP Pavilion dv5: ATA exception on resume from suspend

I ran a test suspend on booting that I read about in the kernel documentation and got a curious result.

I added test_suspend=mem to the kernel boot time parameters (in grub) and my laptop did the following:

* Blanked the display
* Let out a series of system beeps
* Continued to boot AFTER I hit the keyboard (I could see the hard drive light going for a little while)
* The display did not reactivate

So I hit the power button and it shut itself down (while the screen remained blank). I'm sure it resumed, somewhat properly, because it was able to WRITE the kernel log file. Kern.log had an entry "PM: Finishing wakeup.", evidencing something of a suspend / resume event and subsequent hard drive activity.

I guess you could call that a partially successful suspend / resume. It is worth reiterating that this was a kernel test suspend run during the boot process.