[CentOS] Boot message about "resume device"

Tom H tomh0665 at gmail.com
Sun Aug 1 22:20:43 UTC 2010


On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Edward Diener <eldiener at tropicsoft.com> 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.



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