At 12:53 PM +1200 4/12/03, David Friggens wrote:
>  > I don't know what to say.  I would have thought that NetBSD would do
>>  what you tell it in /etc/fstab.  Maybe the fact that there *is* a
>>  *different* partition that comes up as "b" in NetBSD somehow take
>>  precedence over the fact that you told it to swap on the "e"
>>  partition?
>
>Sorry to confuse. I should have been clearer before in my last email.
>
>root and swap were wd0b and wd0e but I've repartitioned and reinstalled,
>so now they show up as wd0a and wd0b
>
>I've now got
>
>    /dev/wd0b none swap sw 0 0
>
>in /etc/fstab but I still get the following on bootup:
>
>    swapctl: /dev/wd0b: Device not configured

What does dmesg show w.r.t. wd0?  With this error you shouldn't be 
able do do a disklabel on the device.  Was the netbsd disklabel from 
before when you partitioned?  If not then I notice that wd0b was not 
the same partition which linux called a swap partition.
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