Guillaume wrote:
> Well, it'd be nice to decipher what actually is wrong with your manual > partitioning. I'm willing to continue helping if you want to try again.I installed a lot of linux systems (F2 to F9, debian, etc) but always on x86 systems. I think partitioning on x86 is OK for me. But it is possible that I forget something ppc-specific...When I install linux, I use personal partitioning. The configuration I do on my ibook is the more frequent I do : - a swap (1 Go) - a / (8 to 15 Go) - a /homeAnd, on my ibook, anaconda says me that I forgot an apple boot partition. I add it.- an apple boot partition (1Mo) ... something missing ?
Doesn't look like it, but I'd would have been very interested in if the "swapon -a" reported a problem parsing the fstab or finding the labeled partition, and if "swapon /dev/hda4" or "swapon -L SWAP-hda4" worked.
Rick Stevens a écrit :Guillaume wrote:Thank you for your help.Before your mail, I tried to re-install the ibook with an other partitioning...I selected "Removes all partitions and creates default partitions" ... With this option, I get a F9 system with no swap problem ! Now it works ! :)Hmmmmm.......About my previous swap problem, there are 2 options:- I made a bad personnal partitioning... possible, but I don't know why and I did not get any anaconda warning/error...Yeah, that's a bit worrying.- Anaconda and/or F9 have a bug on PPC when using personal partitioning... (I installed 3 times F9 on this ibook with personal partitioning and 3 times I get this swap problem...)Well, it'd be nice to decipher what actually is wrong with your manual partitioning. I'm willing to continue helping if you want to try again.Rick Stevens a écrit :Guillaume wrote:The result of fdisk and parted : [root ibook ~]# fdisk -l There is a valid Mac label on this disk. Unfortunately fdisk(1) cannot handle these disks. Use either pdisk or parted to modify the partition table. Nevertheless some advice: 1. fdisk will destroy its contents on write. 2. Be sure that this disk is NOT a still vital part of a volume group. (Otherwise you may erase the other disks as well, if unmirrored.) Disque /dev/hda: 60.0 Go, 60011642880 octets 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders Units = cylindres of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Périphérique Amorce Début Fin Blocs Id Système [root ibook ~]# pdisk -bash: pdisk: command not found [root ibook ~]# parted -l Model: TOSHIBA MK6025GAS (ide) Disque /dev/hda : 60,0GB Taille des secteurs (logiques/physiques): 512B/512B Table de partition : macNuméro Début Fin Taille Système de fichiers Nom Fanions 1 512B 32,8kB 32,3kB Apple <=== don t know what it is, may be apple needed 2 32,8kB 1081kB 1049kB hfs untitled démarrage <=== The apple boot loader 3 1081kB 15,7GB 15,7GB ext3 untitled <=== my / 4 15,7GB 16,8GB 1074MB linux-swap swap swap <=== my swap 5 16,8GB 60,0GB 43,2GB ext3 untitled <=== my /homeI seems that I have no extended partition ... It can be apple specific...It very well may be. DISCLAIMER: I've never used a Mac with Linux before, so anything I say here should be looked at VERY carefully.And swapon -s .... is empty :((((( [root ibook ~]# swapon -s Filename Type Size Used PriorityI install 3 times F9, I always use the manual partitionning, and I get I times this swap problem...Ok, try "swapon -a" (should start swap). Watch carefully to see if it complains about any missing devices. If it does NOT complain, try "swapon -s" and see if it's working. If "swapon -a" DOES complain, you may need to change your /etc/fstab to use the "/dev/sda4" nomenclature rather than "LABEL=swap-sda4". It may be that swapon doesn't recognize the label on the filesystem. Youcan also try "swapon -L swap-sda4" (to manually try to force the label) or "swapon /dev/sda4" (to manually use /dev/sda4).Rick Stevens a écrit :Guillaume wrote:Hi, I installed an ibook G4 (256 Mo SDRAM) with Fedora 9 PPC. I have a problem with the SWAP. - the gnome system appet show me that I don t use the SWAP... - when I use top command I get:Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 82388k cached- the SWAP partition size is 1024 Mo ! I set it at install time and I verify with now with gparted - The SWAP partition is in the /etc/fstab:LABEL=SWAP-hda4 swap swap defaults 0 0Uh, oh. Methinks I see an issue here. First, I didn't know you could use labels for swap partitions (since they don't have a real filesystemon them). I've always used the /dev name of the device (in my case using LVM, it's /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01). On top of that, partition 4 is the extended partition which contains/dev/hda5, /dev/hda6 and so on. Using that as swap (if you could forceit) might cause LOTS of grief. A dump of "fdisk -l" would be nice.If you have a /dev/hda5 in there, then using hda4 as swap can be fatal.- When I run a task that use some CPU/Memory, It crashs the kernelWhen I does not crash, I get some really bad errors like "can not fork: counld not alocate memory" Due to this problem, I can not run yum update on X session, It uses to memoryI run init 3 and then I run yum update ... But It is not a normal behaviour Someone have any idea of what happened ?What does "swapon -s" show? Here's mine (granted, X86_64): [root prophead ~]# swapon -s Filename Type Size Used Priority /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol01 partition 2031608 1500 -1---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer rps2 nerd com - - Hosting Consulting, Inc. - - - - If at first you don't succeed, quit. No sense being a damned fool! - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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