On Monday 02 July 2001 11:30, you wrote:
> --- Glenn Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi, Group:
[snip]
> > In /var/log/boot.msg, there's a line that says 'failure to find
> > swap space signature.' Would it help to go to Partition Magic 6.0
> > and re-format the swap space as file system ID 82?
> >
> > Any ideas, anyone?
>
> Sure. You can't just partition off some raw space and expect it to
> be used as swap, irregardless of what you do with the swapon command.
> First you need to run mkswap on the partition to 'format' it for swap
> usage. The error that you got about a missing swap signature screams
> that this never occured.
>
(From Lonni Friedman)
> =====
I partitioned this space *and* formatted it as type 82 with P.M. 6.0,
prior to beginning the install. Guess that wasn't sufficient. Thanks.
I'll try mkswap.
Regards,
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