Re: yellowdog-general Digest 11 Jul 2000 02:02:29 -0000 Issue 195


Subject: Re: yellowdog-general Digest 11 Jul 2000 02:02:29 -0000 Issue 195
From: Jim Cole (greyleaf@yggdrasill.net)
Date: Tue Jul 11 2000 - 19:04:40 MDT


john.newsom@bsd405.com's bits of Tue, 11 Jul 2000 translated to:

>Now, my problem: I have an invalid argument in my SWAP partition setup, so SWAP
>fails at boot. (I must have screwed up during the install) I have tried using
>LinuxConf and swapon to change the arguments, but can't see the partition table.
>Anyone have a suggestion as to what to do. I am reluctant to reinstall, but
>will do that if necessary.

Have you checked to make sure the partition is labeled as swap (you can
use pdisk -r /dev/xxx for this)? And if so, have you tried running mkswap
on that partition?

Jim



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