seems you missed mkswap -c /dev/hda2 before mounting your swap... See more: man mkswap
mkswap [-c] [-vN] [-f] [-p PSZ] device [size] ......... .........
Ray
Nick W wrote:
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,
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