Re: Swap problem with F9 PPC / i686

[David Timms <dtimms iinet net au>]

Dave Jones wrote:
> On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 04:27:07PM -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
>  
>  > Uh, 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 filesystem
>  > on them). 
>
> They've supported labels for quite a while now. See the -L parameter
> to mkswap.
Unfortunately, if you go to reuse {even with formatting} an existing 
swap partition, anaconda.9 either fails to get the right info into 
fstab, or the boot process is not happy with the info, so that the swap 
partition does not get mounted.

I have had to revert to adjusting the fstab name to be by /dev/sdX
I also had a go at doing it be UUID, but no success there. The swap 
doesn't load on boot, even though swapon -a works.

Not ppc specific if all that also applies to Guillaume... Happy to write 
a bug about this, but haven't done so yet.