On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 11:29:42 -0500 Bryan Feir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 01:36:45AM -0500, Ben Sparks wrote: > > Now another problem my swap file is not being initiated at boot. I have > > to run the swapon command in a console for it to start the swap file. I > > have looked at my fstab file, I thinkit is setup right. Does anyone > > know what I might do to fix this little problem. > > What may be the problem is that gentoo's automatic fstab creator seems > to create the swap line as: > > /dev/SWAP none swap sw 0 0 > > but that doesn't mean that the /dev/SWAP necessarily exists in devfs. If > /dev/SWAP doesn't exist, then this line won't work. So either change the > line in /etc/fstab to refer to the real /dev/ device, or add a symbolic > link for SWAP to point to the device. > Gentoo does not automatically create a usable fstab; you always have to edit it. When you see /dev/SWAP, this means edit it to read /dev/hdxy, where xy is the correct location of your swap partition. -- Collins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
