Also, if you are using Grub, you'll have to make a change to your grub.conf file.
The default grub.conf file makes reference to /mnt/BOOT, mnt/ROOT, and /mnt/SWAP. These values need to be replaced with the correct values i.e. /dev/hda2 for /mnt/SWAP. If this isn't done, you'll see a few errors on start up, and might even be able to continue running properly (I was). But it's much better to make these changes. Shawn -----Original Message----- From: Nick W To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11/20/03 3:07 PM Subject: [clug-talk] Gentoo again; why me? Ok, so in an old thread someone mentioned my out of memory problem was because I wasnt enabling swap. Ive been working on a boot disk [its an old machine no cd-boot] that allows me to do this. After many tries Im so very close but its being stupid. Heres the output from various commands... [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/hda2 unable to find swap-space signature swapon: /dev/hda2: invalid argument //thats odd...so I take a longshot //dont know if this is even feasable [EMAIL PROTECTED] -t swap swap /dev/hda2 mount: unable to mount /dev/hda2: no such device //interesting, so now I want to find where hda2 dissappeared to //by the way swap is listed in fstab and is correct. //but is not working on boot obviously [EMAIL PROTECTED] -l /dev/hda2 brw-r----- 1 root root 3, 2 Nov 20 2003 /dev/hda2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/ram0 on / type ext2 (rw) proc on /proc type proc (rw) /dev/hda1 on /mnt/gen type ext2 (rw) //note it sees hda1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] hda //then I press p to list the partition table Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 527 cylinders Units=cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks ID System /dev/hda1 1 1 447 3590496 83 Linux Native /dev/hda2 448 448 527 642600 82 Linux Swap so as it stands, Im clueless...is there a mkswapfs command? thanks, -- Nick W ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Registered Linux User #324288 (http://counter.li.org) MSN Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo: foolish_gambit ICQ: 303276221 _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
