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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!uunet!mnemosyne.cs.du.edu!nyx!jefouger From: jefouger@nyx.cs.du.edu (Jim Fougeron) Subject: Need help seting up swap devices Message-ID: <1992Nov30.093644.17291@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> Sender: usenet@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (netnews admin account) Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept. Date: Mon, 30 Nov 92 09:36:44 GMT Lines: 43 I'm having a terrible time compiling the sources for 386BSD on my system. What happens is this, several (from 2 to 50) sources will compile fine, and then the machine goes off into la la land! I have a PC Pro 386-25 with a 120M IDE and a 210M IDE. The first drive as the third partition for 386BSD (about 50 Meg) and the second drive is all 386BSD. I do have the kernel recompiled for two disks, and LPT driver support. What I beleive is the problem is that the swap partitions are not set up right. The system seems to crash when the memory usage becomes large (core dump, and/or complete system lock-up). How do you set up the swap partions properly? Here is what I've done so far: - recompiled kernel with 2-drive support, and swap for wd0 and wd1 - from fixit disk - disklabel -r wd0 > wd0 - edit the partition b (was "unused" 5 meg) to type swap - disklabel -R -r wd0 wd0 /usr/mdec/wdboot /usr/mdec/bootwd - disklabel -r wd1 > wd1 - edit the partition b (was "unused" 5 meg) to type swap - disklabel -R -r wd1 wd1 /usr/mdec/wdboot /usr/mdec/bootwd - Both partitions now show a "swap" in partition B - in /etc on root hard drive, edited fstab with the lines: - /dev/wd0b none swap sw 0 0 - /dev/wd1b none swap sw 0 0 At boot time, I now get a message about swapon recognising wd1b as a swap device. I still have the problems of before. I would be grateful for any help I can get. I am very tired of having my root file system stomped on because of a machine lockup. BTW I am running a stand alone system, so shutting it down off of a remote term can't be done (for the time being). Please email to jimfn@ids.net because my access to usenet is uncertain for the next few weeks. Thanx, jimfn@ids.net ======================================================================= Handy Guide to Modern Science: 1. If it's green or it wiggles, it's biology. 2. If it stinks, it's chemistry. 3. If it doesn't work, it's physics. =======================================================================