The problem I am about to describe existed on RH 5.2 and now exists on Mandrake 6.1. The Mandrake was installed from scratch, not as an upgrade. I used Disk Druid to destroy 5.2's partition before repartitioning and installing Mandrake. I have installed Mandrake on a 4.3 Connor which is my 2nd of 3 drives. (My first has win95 and my third has winnt.) This drive has a 200mb dos bootable partition and the rest of the disk is an (dos created) extended partition in which linux has 4 drives. This includes hd6, hd7, hd8, hd9 (swap). Strangely, Disk Druid skipped Hd5. For some reason, Linux is unable to access the swap partition. The swap partition was created with Disk Druid and, after failures to mnt it, recreated using fdisk (linux's). It is type 0x82 as reported by fdisk. When made using Disk Druid, it was prepared iaw the installation procedure. When I recreated it using fdisk, I tried to run mkswap on it. Got an error "No such Device". Everytime I have booted linux, the swapon command that occurs during boot up returns an error "no such device". However, the device is there. Why can't swapon nor mkswap see this drive? Is it because it exists in an extended partiton? or because it exist above cylinder 1024? Because it exists in an extended partition that had been created with win95's fdisk? I have looked high and low for answer and can't find one. I have 128 mb ram so the swap partition is not vital but it bugs me when I get an error that I can't figure out. I am a linux newbie and a newbie to this list. If I should have posted my question somewhere else, please forgive. Note, I boot Linux from floppy because I am a CIS student who can not afford to break winnt so am afraid to mess with mbr. Thanks Tom My system K6 233 128 mb sdram Mb FIC PA 2007 Apollo II chipset 10 gig seagate hd on primary master 4.3 Connor on primary slave 1.2 Quantum fireball on Secondary master Teac 6x cdrom on slave All windows file systems are Fat16 for obvious reasons.
