Changing swap partition in FC6 - weird message at next boot

[M A Young]

On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Joachim Backes wrote:

> I changed may swap device to another partition (mkswap, swapon are all OK).
> Then at next boot getting a message:
>
> 	unable to change resume device <old partition device>
>
> How to get rid of this message?

I would guesss that this happens in the initrd - the mini file-system that
is loaded at boot before the main system starts - and the initrd probably
still has details of the old swap location. You can build a fresh initrd
with mkinitrd, or install a later kernel which will build one
automatically.

	Michael Young