Bug#987503: swap partition only 1 GB instead of at least 1 x RAM size
I was also bitten by this bug with the Debian bookworm alpha1 era
installer. This is not a wishlist kind of bug; This is a bug of grave
severity. Breaking hibernation is unacceptable and is a key feature of
modern operating systems for both laptop and desktop users. If the
idea behind the 1GB default is to cater to the server world, then
somewhere the installer needs to either prompt the user to say what
kind of installation it is (desktop or server) or to offer a choice
between the two camps so the installer picks better defaults.
I completely don't understand the comments about hibernation not
working on x86. I'm going to disregard that unless there's a
clarification.
Thanks to Johannes (in Message #30) for suggesting a solution. Other
workarounds found on the web suggest tinkering with systemd's
SYSTEMD_BYPASS_HIBERNATION_MEMORY_CHECK variable and re-configuring
the GRUB menu (see
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1928690#p1928690). I
haven't tried these yet but the Debian installer shouldn't burden
users with such low-level tinkering.
This is going to push potential Debian users to other distros after
they discover hibernate doesn't work.
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