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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!spool.mu.edu!sgigate.sgi.com!uhog.mit.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news.interpath.net!bogus From: kpneal@interpath.com (Kevin P. Neal) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Help needed with NetBSD 1.1/Amiga: Cannot configure second swap partition Date: Fri, 14 Jun 96 21:54:12 GMT Organization: It's a Bedroom--Not A Lab Lines: 28 Message-ID: <4psmpi$gq0@news.interpath.net> References: <ulohsmf4f.fsf@losira.ppe.bb-data.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: raleigh-15.interpath.net X-Newsreader: News Xpress 2.0 Beta #0 In article <ulohsmf4f.fsf@losira.ppe.bb-data.de>, mib@bb-data.de (Martin Ibert) wrote: >Hi, > >But if I try to swapon it, I get a "device not >configured" error. > >So I thought, maybe the problem is not with the partition at all; >maybe the kernel needs to be configured for another swap area. Yep. > I then >edited my kernel config file, replacing the "netbsd swap on generic" >statement with "netbsd root on sd0 swap on sd0 and sd1". But no joy; >the kernel won't link. It is missing a function (was it autoconf in >module setconf or the other way around? I'm away from the machine >right now). I even put in two "config" lines; the one with the >"generic" clause gives me a kernel, while the other doesn't. Ok, you have to take out "options GENERIC" if you aren't config'ing on generic. -- XCOMM Kevin P. Neal, Sophomore, Comp. Sci. \ kpneal@interpath.com XCOMM The Mirrorball Wizard of Smerp \ kpneal@eos.ncsu.edu XCOMM Visit the House of RetroComputing at / Perm. Email: XCOMM http://www4.ncsu.edu/~kpneal/www/ / kevinneal@bix.com