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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!mips!mips!kpc!amdcad!BitBlocks.com!bvs From: bvs@BitBlocks.COM (Bakul Shah) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Using Swap partition on 2nd drive? Message-ID: <1992Aug8.233253.3870@BitBlocks.COM> Date: 8 Aug 92 23:32:53 GMT References: <1992Aug7.171205.10281@gumby.dsd.trw.com> <1992Aug7.181344.497@zip.eecs.umich.edu> <1992Aug7.202016.17333@coe.montana.edu> <BsnH56.6G2@obiwan.uucp> Organization: Bit Blocks, Inc. Lines: 41 bob@obiwan.uucp (Bob Willcox) writes: >swapon: /dev/wd1b: Device not configured >Can someone please tell me what I have failed to do or done wrong? >I am quite new to BSD systems and have run out of ideas. I haven't used that patch so this is pure speculation but seems like the second disk was not found by the kernel. Look for a startup message of the kind wd1 <...> at 0x1f0 irq 14 on isa If you don't see that the disk was not seen by the kernel. If the disk was seen, you may not have disklabel'ed it. Check by doing a disklabel wd1 If the disk was labelled, the above should succeed. One other possibility is that /dev/wd1b does not exist. /dev/MAKEDEV will make these special files for you if you do (as root and in the /dev directory) MAKEDEV wd1 or you can manually do mknod /dev/wd1b b 0 9 If all of the above works *and* your swapon /dev/wd1b doesn't, maybe the patch hasn't worked for you somehow. Once swapon works you can add the following line to your /etc/fstab to add wd1b swap on bootup: /dev/wd1b none swap sw -- Bakul Shah <bvs@bitblocks.com>