Subject: Re: Swap!?
To: Steve Allen <allen@cssg4.cslab.ds.boeing.com>
From: Mack Nagashima <mackn@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 02/01/1996 01:48:36
On Wed, 31 Jan 1996, Steve Allen wrote:
> On Jan 31, 9:48am, Ken Nakata wrote:
> >> I just installed a new kernel (wormey #45??? The one on eskimo)
> >> and now i get a warning. It doesn't see the swap and says it doesn't
> >> exist.. it says that sd2b is not configured....what's going on?
> >
> >I would guess that it's a kernel tailored to suit Steve's system
> >configuration. Probably it's configured to use swap partitions on
> >sd0b and sd2b. If you don't have sd2 (third SCSI disk), then it
> >complains but no harm will be done.
>
> No, I configure WORMHOLE to swap on sd0b and vnd0a, and dump on sd1b.
>
> If he has something requesting sd2b, it sounds more like there is a
> CDROM or SCSI tape in between two disks, the install is on the second
> disk, and the installer made fstab entries based on that configuration.
>
> installer: SCSI 0 - disk, 1 - CDROM, 2 - disk
> NetBSD: sd0 cd0 sd1
>
> The solution is to check /etc/fstab and make sure it's pointing to the
> right place.
>
> ~Steve
Well..this is my SCSI chain...
ID#0 40M HDisk
ID#1 540M HDisk
ID#2 360M HDisk w/ 150root&usr 20swap
ID#4 Scanner
ID#6 Scanner
I keep the two scanner powered off most of the time so they aren't really
there.
I picked up the Generic 52 kernel and things seem ok.
-Mack