--- Glenn Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
Lesson to be learned:
Never use a windoze app for Linux.
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