Unable to access resume device (LABEL=swap - hda2)

George Hare hare.george at gmail.com
Mon Mar 12 12:06:25 UTC 2007


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>
> From: Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au>
> Subject: Re: Unable to access resume device (LABEL=swap - hda2)
> To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>
> On Sun, 2007-03-11 at 22:41 -0400, George Hare wrote:
> > That is one of the messages I get get when I boot up. (Unable to
> > access resume device)
>
> That's your system trying to see if you'd hibernated your system (which
> would dump RAM contents to the swap space, to be restored when powering
> up again).  If you hadn't hibernated your system, there wouldn't be any
> resuming information to find.
> Sounds perfectly logical, where do you find out things like this ?
> Everything is on hda1 and the swap is on hda2, if that matters.
>

If the problems down to it not finding your swap partition because it
> can't read the label it's expecing, you can use the old-style /dev/hda
> mount points (How is this done?)rather than labels in your fstab file.
> There was a garphical tool like Parted, can't remember, but now it is
> gone. Should I put my disk in to get to the partitioning section again...I
> know nothing about fstab stuff.

Thanks Tim,

Geoege Hare
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