At Sun, 01 Aug 2010 19:10:47 -0400 CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Tom H wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Edward Diener <eldiener@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> When I boot CentOS 5.5, I receive the message: > >> > >> Unable to access resume device ( UUID = some UUID etc. ) > >> > >> How do I find out what actual device to which this UUID refers ? It does > >> not appear to be a block device since it does not show when I try 'blkid'. > >> To what does "resume device" refer ? > >> > >> The boot succeeds but I would like to know what this messages means. > > > > UUID?! "resume" must be set to that UUID in /init in your initrd. > > Updating/recreating your initrd should fix this problem. > > How does one "update/recreate" the initrd image ? mkinitrd -f /boot/initrd-`uname -r`.img `uname -r` > > Why would initrd hard-code a partition UUID ? If the UUID changes, which > it has in my case when I had to move and reformat the swap partition, > then the initrd image is now wrong. It might also depend on what you have for kernel command line parameters and/or what /etc/fstab looks like and/or what your hibernate/resume config looks like. I believe it is possible for these things to use more 'symbolic' things (like LABEL= for example [yes, mkswap can label a swap partition]). mkinitrd looks in various places to figure out what the swap partition is 'called' and is probably falling back to the UUID as the fallback choice. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/ _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos