Boot from SAN system won't boot, "Unable to access resume device" and "could not find filesystem" errors

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Issue

  • After a reboot, the machine cannot find root (/) logical volume.
  • The following messages appear on the console:
Unable to access resume device (/dev/VolGroupX/LVSwap)
mount: could not find filesystem '`/dev/root'

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

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