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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Subject: Re: [386BSD] System's not finding/using swap
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Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 16:24:00 GMT
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In article <1992Oct15.045324.14859@news2.cis.umn.edu> rodeen@buddha.ncc.umn.edu (Rick Odeen) writes:
>I'm currently bringing up a system using Terry's "HP Vectra/starlan" kernel
>and am experiencing a problem with the system not finding my swap space.
>During the inital boot sequence I get the following message:
>
>Oct 15 00:29:38 manray /386bsd: warning: no swap space present (yet)
[ ... ]
>8 partitions:
>#        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
>  a:    21000        0    4.2BSD      512  4096    16 	# (Cyl.    0 - 39)
>  b:    21000    21000      swap                    	# (Cyl.   40 - 79)
^^^^^
>  c:   641550        0    unused        0     0       	# (Cyl.    0 - 1221)
>  d:   641550        0    unused        0     0       	# (Cyl.    0 - 1221)
>  h:   596925    42000    4.2BSD      512  4096    16 	# (Cyl.   80 - 1216)

The swap has to go at the end of the disk.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@icarus.weber.edu
					terry_lambert@novell.com
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