We are running SUSE 2.4.7 kernel. When I tried this, the dasdfmt fails with the
following error:
Formatting V-DISK swap partition"
dasdfmt: Unsupported disk type"
/dev/dasda is not an ECKD disk! This disk type is not supported!"
We are using 200 as our swap disk, as /dev/dasda.
Our parmfile has 200 as the first dasd ucb.
Any ideas/help is appreciated...
Regards
John Gustavson
Enterprise Central Software Services (ECSS)
570 Washington Street - 2nd floor
New York, New York, 10080-6802
Telephone: 1-212-647-3793
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-----Original Message-----
From: Wolfe, Gordon W [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 6:40 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Swap not starting
You didn't say what distribution or release you're using. For SuSe,
check
out
http://linuxvm.org/Info/HOWTOs/vdiskswp.html
"Never trust any computer you can lift."
Gordon Wolfe, Ph.D. (425)865-5940
VM Technical Services, The Boeing Company
> ----------
> From: Post, Mark K
> Reply To: Linux on 390 Port
> Sent: Friday, March 1, 2002 12:56 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Swap not starting
>
> Larry,
>
> The /etc/rc.d/boot script does start LVM before doing the swapon
command,
> so
> you should be fine there. Still, you might try changing your swap
volume
> to
> a swap file on the root file system and see if you still have the
problem.
>
> If you don't want to do that, try changing /etc/rc.d/boot so that
you have
> a
> "set -x" command right after the 'echo "Running $0" line. That will
turn
> on
> "print command" mode for the rest of the script. I would also
change the
> "swapon -a -v &> /dev/null/" command to read "swapon -a -v" or,
perhaps
> "swapon -a -v &> /tmp/swaplog"
>
> For your Samba problem, I've found that the 2.2 version doesn't log
as
> much
> as it should. Put a "log level = 1" in your /etc/smb.conf file
before
> your
> next reboot. If you bump the number up, Samba gets increasingly
verbose.
> You probably won't have to go beyond 2 or at most 3 before you get
far
> more
> output than you really want to see.
>
> Mark Post
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lawrence Hanus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 3:12 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Swap not starting
>
>
> I am a mainframe'er fairly new to the Linux world looking for some
help.
> We are experiencing several startup problems at boot time. In our
> /etc/rc.d/boot script we have "swapon -a -v &> /dev/null/' (without
the
> quotes). We have also added echo statements to make it visible on
the
> HMC during IPL. The echo statements are seen but there no messages
for
> the swapon command (even with the added -v). /proc/swaps shows
nothing.
> Our fstab has the following:
> root@KDLNXT01:/etc > cat /etc/fstab
> /dev/dasda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1
> /dev/dasdb1 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2
> none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> /dev/dasdc1 /vol1 ext2 defaults 0 1
> /dev/dasdd1 /vol2 ext2 defaults 0 1
> /dev/dasde1 /vol3 ext2 defaults 0 1
> /vol1/swap/swapfs1 swap swap defaults 0 0
> # End of YaST-generated fstab lines
>
> When I do a "swapon -a" after the IPL all swap datasets are active.
My
> theory is that the swapon from boot script is failing maybe because
the
> volumes are not fully mounted when the command is started. We have
> entered it in boot.local and everything works. Questions:
> #1. Is there a reason why swapon command is not working from boot
> script, but works from boot.local.
> #2. After the echo messages appear on the HMC console, is there a
way
> to make them appear in a log somewhere. I check boot.msg, warn,
> messages, allmessages and grep the whole /var/log directory and found
> nothing. We are also experiencing problems with samba startup.
> Sometimes it starts, sometimes it doesn't. We can never find any
> messages. Samba is started in our /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S91smb link. What
do
> I need to know to find these messages.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Larry Hanus
> Systems & Software Support
> Sprint
>
>
