Resuming from a crashdump

[Christian Laursen]

I was thinking about software suspend and got this crazy idea.

I have no idea if this is possible or total madness but here
goes anyway.

The idea would be to force the system to "crash" and make a
dump on a dedicated partition. On boot after initializing devices
but before mounting /, the kernel would check that partition and
if it found a dump there restore it to the machine's memory,
reinitialize devices and continue where it left off.

Any thoughts? Could this be done or would an entirely different
approach be better?

-- 
Christian Laursen