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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
