Subject: iBook multiboot swap
To: None <port-macppc@netbsd.org>
From: David Friggens <david@mcs.vuw.ac.nz>
List: port-macppc
Date: 04/09/2003 14:51:05
I have a new iBook (14", 800 MHz) and I'm trying to get NetBSD, Linux and OS X 
running on it.

I've partitioned with the OS X disk utility and Linux's mac-fdisk and have all 
three OSs installed. I have a 512MB partition that I want to use as swap for 
both Linux and NetBSD.

Linux appears to be fine with it, whether I have it as an Apple_UFS partiton 
or an Apple_UNIX_SVR2 (swap) partition.

But NetBSD doesn't like it either way. It doesn't see the latter, and with the 
former it says:
/etc/rc: WARNING: No swap space configured!
when booting, even with:
/dev/wd0e none swap sw 0 0
in /etc/fstab.

How do I get NetBSD to use it as swap?

Thanks
David