On 3/1/07, John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

It shouldn't be hard to hook a mkswap command into /etc/inittab, to run
before (almost) everything else and do away with this "ipl cms first" caper.

The original motivation was to use the diagnose driver, so you needed
to write to even sooner. Adding the code to also initialize it as swap
disk was for free. And IMHO having some code in Linux to overwrite one
of your disks during boot is something waiting to bite you real bad.

Rob

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