Re: I'm sooooo close I can taste it....

["H.C. van der Vegt" <H C vanderVegt DTO TUDelft nl>]

David

On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, David Rysdam wrote:
> OK, I've got Linux installed on this &*$%#& Jensen.  I
> fixed my disk problem of yesterday.  I even made the
> disk bootable (I was booting from a different disk for
> historical reasons).  But now when I boot from the
> right disk, kswapd hangs.
Are you booting with a jensen kernel ? 
This kswap messages you get, happens if your kernel is not properly
configured to the jensen.

What boot options do you use ?
boot -i from console
0/a  or o/-   boots from the kernel in the bootblock area.
2/boot/vmunix.. boots from the kernel in the /boot directory.

> 
> When I boot the other kernel (I have two bootable
> drives right now), it works but tells me that
> /dev/sdc3 (my swap partition--actually the whole drive
> is swap) is "not configured".  So I go in and fdisk
> it, label it swap, write it out, mkswap it--and
> repeat.

Is this realy partition 3 , in BSD terms 3(c) is the whole disk,
maybe the swap is overwriten the partition table at the beginning.

For swap on a whole disk you do not need a BSD partition table.


henry

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