On Thu, 28 Aug 2014 16:58:50 -0400 PaulNM <deb...@paulscrap.com> wrote:
> On 08/28/2014 04:45 PM, Joe wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Aug 2014 12:54:44 -0700 > > "Kevin O'Gorman" <kogor...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > >>> This was no help. Only one suggestion was new to me: disabling > >>> fast > >> startup in Windows. I did that but see no difference. > >> > >> > >> > > That may have been inspired by something I originally posted, but > > wouldn't be relevant here. The easily accessible Windows 8 shutdown > > command does nothing of the sort, but goes into (I believe) standby > > to RAM. It is necessary to dig into the Power entry in the charms to > > actually turn off the power. Standby is OK when you know you will be > > using the machine again within 24 hours or so and the battery is > > full. > > > > Minor correction here: The fastboot is a hybrid hibernate, not > suspension. The userspace stuff closes as in a normal shutdown, but > then the OS hibernates and the system powers off. The > OS/driver/services state is saved and restored from the hibernate > file. It's not a normal hibernate, since the user stuff isn't saved, > hence "hybrid". > Sorry, I wasn't clear, that's what I was describing next. The first paragraph was about Windows' general preference for standby rather than shutdown, and needing to be explicitly told to turn the power off. The easily-accessible (from Metro) shutdown menu doesn't include power off. > > > The fast boot feature appears to be a dynamic initrd, which stores > > pretty much the full OS state on disc at shutdown (having kept it in > > a state of near-readiness at all times, otherwise the shutdown would > > take forever) and allows a very fast boot. But this will only affect > > what happens after the Windows boot code runs, and hence would not > > help or hinder you here. > > > > You are correct that it shouldn't affect bootloader selection. It's > important if you plan to resize the windows partition or otherwise > access it, though. > -- Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140828221817.52b97...@jresid.jretrading.com
