Re: swsusp: Unable to find swap-space signature

From: Pavel Machek (pavel@ucw.cz)
Date: Thu Mar 07 2002 - 14:31:27 EST

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Hi!

> I think I'm making progress.
> I have 128 MB RAM, and a single 256 MB swap partition.
> I pressed SysRq-D, swsusp displayed all sorts of successful messages, and
> then rebooted my computer. (can I get it to poweroff my computer instead of
> reboot it?)
>
> When it started up again, the kernel displayed the message "Unable to find
> swap-space signature" and went on to fsck. The swap partition seemed dead. I
> ran mkswap and swapon to get my swap partition back.
>
> Any idea what went wrong? I'd love to get swsusp working.

Yep, you need to pass resume=/dev/hda3 to resume (on kernel command
line).

Pavel

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