today I have updated some packages (among others also kernel) and after the reboot I cannot start the system, I get the following message:
resume device not found (ignoring)
waiting for device xxxx to appear
want me to fall back to /dev/disk/by-id/xxxxxxxxx (Y/n)
Before the update everything was ok. The partition is still ok because I can see it (and its content) from Windows, which I have in dualboot.
I use Tumbleweed and I did the update from corresponding repositories to the latest available versions.
I have googled several topics related to this problem but nothing useful for me. Probably, I can boot from DVD and try to install the previous version of kernal … but is the problem realy in the kernel? Did anybody deal with such a problem, can you help me?
Sounds like you hibernated instead of quitting. Because the restart is kicking in instead of a a cold boot. THis would fail because of a change in kernel.
thanks for your replies. Here is some additional information:
yes, the disk/partition that is being resumed could be the swap partition (it is marked as “part-5” in the log) but this is not the problem. The problem is with the other disk/partition that could not be find at all (marked as “part-6”) because it should be the system partition.
I tried to boot with the “noresume” setting but the problem is still here
I had definitely rebooted before (instead of hibernating)
And can you please advise me how to do it? There is no such option in the grub command line. Besides, when I booted to “fail save”, there was the “noresume” option that should have the same effect (am I right?) and it did not help - the partition is still not found.
wolfi323: Unfortunately, I cannot check it in Yast because I cannot load the system at all I am using grub, not grub2. And yes, my keyboard works in grub menu.
My grub theme allows me to select a particular operating system and to edit some parameters stated in the command line. So, pressing ‘e’ types ‘e’ in the command line - this is how I tried to start the system with the “noresume” option. As I said before, the problem (as I see it) is not in the resuming but that the system partition cannot be found. … I try to rewrite the whole error massage …
The problem is not resume, initrd does not find root partition. You could try to boot from Live CD and rebuild initrd assuming something went wrong during update. Which version of openSUSE do you have?
Or you could try to enter grub’s edit mode (press ESC and then ‘e’, as was mentioned before) and change the root= parameter in the kernel line to root=/dev/sda5 or similar…
I am using grub, not grub2. And yes, my keyboard works in grub menu.
