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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!sdd.hp.com!wupost!uunet!email!news.univie.ac.at!news.tu-graz.ac.at!fstgds01!chmr From: chmr@fstgds01.tu-graz.ac.at (Christoph Robitschko) Subject: Re: Using Swap partition on 2nd drive? Message-ID: <1992Aug9.070714.5380@news.tu-graz.ac.at> Sender: news@news.tu-graz.ac.at (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: fstgds01 Organization: Technical University of Graz, Austria 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> <1992Aug8.233253.3870@BitBlocks.COM> Date: Sun, 9 Aug 92 07:07:14 GMT Lines: 53 In article <1992Aug8.233253.3870@BitBlocks.COM> bvs@BitBlocks.COM (Bakul Shah) writes: >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. > Bob, I can verify that your configuration file and swap386bsd.c are right. >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. My patch doesn't print 'wd1...', but rather something like wd0 0:<....> 1:<....> at ... ^^^^^^^^ > >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 it *does* exist, check that the major & minor device numbers are correct (0, 9). If it didn't exist, the error message would probably be 'No such file or directory'. >If all of the above works *and* your swapon /dev/wd1b doesn't, >maybe the patch hasn't worked for you somehow. > All I can say is that it works perfectly for me. (With swap on both disks). Christoph -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Christoph M. Robitschko | "the only man who got his work done by Friday chmr@edvz.tu-graz.ac.at | was Robinson Crusoe."