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From: jdolter@eecs.umich.edu (James W. Dolter)
Subject: Re: [386BSD] System's not finding/using swap
In-Reply-To: terry@cs.weber.edu's message of Thu, 15 Oct 92 16:24:00 GMT
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Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 19:04:14 GMT
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>>>>> Regarding Re: [386BSD] System's not finding/using swap; terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) adds:

   .....

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

That is not true.... I have both of my configured swap partitions in the
middle of my disks.

I suggest checking out your kernel config and swap386bsd.c to make sure
that you have a entry in the swap device table (swdevt)...



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