[RHEL] Why am I receiving the error "unable to access resume device" after change the swap device?

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Issue

  • Why am I receiving the error "unable to access resume device" after change the swap device?
  • What is the "resume device" in Linux and when it is used?

Memory for crash kernel (0x0 to 0x0) notwithin permissible range i8042.c: No controller found.
Red Hat nash version 5.1.19.6 starting
megasas: INIT adapter done
  Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...
  No volume groups found
  Volume group "VolGroup00" not found
Unable to access resume device (/dev/VolGroup00/lv_swap3)
mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root'
setuproot: moving /dev failed: No such file or directory
setuproot: error mounting /proc: No such file or directory
setuproot: error mounting /sys: No such file or directory
switchroot: mount failed: No such file or directory
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
Kernel alive
Kernel direct mapping tables up to 1080000000 @ 10000-53000

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 - All Releases

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