Re: [gNewSense-users] Observations after reinstalling GNS on a Yeeloong laptop

[Sam Geeraerts]

samy boutayeb wrote:
> > Yeeloong-base also pulls in grub-yeeloong because it's a nicer boot
> > loader than PMON. It's slow, but I hear that's a lot better in newer
> > versions of GRUB (should even be usable as a firmware replacement for
> > PMON). We haven't got around to updating it yet.
>
> See: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.grub.devel/17271

Yep, I read that. Vlad regularly keeps us up to date about Yeeloong 
stuff in GRUB in #gnewsense-dev. He implemented GRUB as firmware some 
months ago, but so far I've not heard about anyone else who tried it. 
It's not that I don't trust him to get it right, but if flashing does go 
wrong the chip needs to be replaced, which requires some work, skill and 
a new chip.

> > Suspend and hibernate work for me with both .35 and .37. Make sure you
> edit the swap partition in /etc/fstab for .37. Do you get any error
> messages (check dmesg)?
>
> After trying "suspend to ram", dmesg says:
>
> ata& SRST failed (errno=-16
>
> After tried to hibernate, the dmesg says:
>
> PM: thaw of devices complete after 322.949 msecs
> PM: Cannot find swap device, try swapon -a
> PM: Cannot get swap writer
>
> The swap line in /etc/fstab is
>
> /dev/sda5 none swap sw 0 0
>
> This said, I though that the issue was that the swap partition was
> incorrectly set to 83 (instead of 82) in fdisk. I changed it and...
>
> got the same output in dmesg
>
> Same result after executing 
>
> swapon -a
>
> Anyway, it's good to know that the power management is working on you
> configuration. I'll investigate further here later.

fstab line looks ok to me. You could try referring to the partition with 
its UUID.

It seems that you have a different PMON version, so maybe that's the 
problem? You could try replacing it with GRUB. ;)