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Zazaeil
Asked: 2018-02-13 01:43:25 +0800 CST

Can't boot my MacBook Air 2017 after sudo pm-hibernate

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Looks like hardware simply does not support such a command. Whenever I try start Ubuntu (> 16), it tries to boot and in 2 secs screen became totally black. Nothing helps.

Just don't tell me I need to reinstall it.

hibernate macbook

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    As Steve said in the comment, there has been a problem with hibernation in some of the kernels shipped with ubuntu, which is described here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1743094

    From my limited reading, it seems to have started at 4.13.0-25, and still be a problem in 4.13.0-32

    After I encountered this, I could still get into GRUB. I used Advanced options for Ubuntu > Ubuntu, with Linux 4.8.0-53 (recovery mode), and ran swapoff --all in a root-shell, ran fsck, and updated grub. After doing this, I was able to boot into my system again :) -- all steps might not have been necessary though.

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  2. In case you don't have an old kernel that you can use to boot the system, install an older kernel using live cd as described in How to restore a system after accidentally removing all kernels?

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