Changing swap partition in FC6 - weird message at next boot

Joachim Backes joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de
Wed Nov 8 11:48:27 UTC 2006


M A Young wrote:
> 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
> 

Hi Michael,

this solved my problem. Many thanks.

Regards

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