Weird message after changing my swap partition

Joachim Backes joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de
Wed Jul 19 05:34:47 UTC 2006


Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Joachim Backes wrote:
>> I installed my FC5 with /dev/hda7 as swap partition. Later on, I changed
>> the swap partion to anotherone and modified /etc/fstab too.
>>
>> But now, each time I reboot, getting a weird message:
>>
>> "unable to access resume device (/dev/hda7)".
>>
>> How to get rid of this boot message?
>>
>> All help welcome.
>>
>> Regards
>>
> The message is because the initramdisk is trying to check the old
> swap partition to see if you did a suspend to disk using the swap
> partition. (hibernate) You will need to use mkinitrd to make a new
> initrd for each kernel you use. Or you can wait until kernel updates
> replace all the currently installed kernels if you do not use
> suspend to disk, and ignore the message.
> 
> Mikkel

Hi,

your proposal was a ful hit! Did all what I needed.

Regards

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