hibernate: vbetool: Saved state file does not exist (/var/lib/vbetool/vbestate) hibernate: vbetool: Saving state on suspend instead. hibernate: WARNING: Filewriter location given, but kernel does not have filewriter hibernate: support. Ignoring. You haven't specified a resume2= parameter on your kernel command line Your GRUB or LILO config should have something like resume2=swap:/dev/hdaX where /dev/hdaX is your swap partition. You will then need to either reboot after doing so or set it manually (this time only) using: echo swap:/dev/hdaX > /sys/power/suspend2/resume2 hibernate: Aborting.