Well, it worked so far...just needs a kernel now. woohoo! It actually wasn't even that painful... ~40 hrs for stage 1&2 to compile isnt bad considering the machine its on. I just hope it doesnt take 567 tries to get the kernel in. Back to work, thanx again.
On Thursday 20 November 2003 22:55, Ray wrote: > 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, -- 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
