Re: Help:General protection fault in Linux?????? (It's the swap!)

["Jose M. Sanchez" <opjose ex-pressnet com>]

Ordinarily my first guess would be that the swap partition sits on a
cylinder limit boundry... I.E. greater than cyl 1024.... (though this should
not occur with SCSI)

Second guess is that the SCSI controller is receiving erroneous information
about the hard disk drive.

Third, try making the swap partition the second partition (after DOS) on
your hard disk.

-JMS


-----Original Message-----
From: Alexander Woodby <awoodby tir com>
To: Jose M. Sanchez <opjose ex-pressnet com>; redhat-install-list redhat com
<redhat-install-list redhat com>
Date: Thursday, October 29, 1998 1:42 PM
Subject: Re: Help:General protection fault in Linux?????? (It's the swap!)


>Just tried mkswap (after swapoff) and get
>
>mkswap: warning: truncating swap area to 130752kB
>Setting up swapspace, size=133885952 bytes
>
>Why is it truncating the swap size?  I seem to remember an older version
>having the swap size limited to 130M but not any more, what's the deal?
>
>TIA,
>
>--alex