Re: 'swap on' config question

[Ignatios Souvatzis <is%jocelyn.rhein.de@localhost>]

On Sat, Oct 17, 1998 at 08:13:25PM -0500, Bo Najdrovsky wrote:
> Bernd Sieker wrote:
> 
> > The kernel should accept swap partitions on all disks. It seems that
> > you still have a line in fstab specifying sd0b as the swap
> > device. Change that to sd1b and you should be fine.
> >
> > /dev/sd1b       none            swap    sw
> >
> > Maybe sysinst has added that line as a default or you still have an
> > old fstab from a previous install.
> 
> No, no... that's not the problem.  My swap partition gets added just fine
> during the boot-up (I _do_ know how to add a swap partition, among other
> things   ;-)  .  What I'm talking about happens before the rc scripts even
> run.... the kernel itself reports:
> 
> root on sd0a dumps on sd0b
> 
> when it's configuring the hard drives....  the 'dumps on sd0b' part is what's
> wrong.  (sorry, I should have been more clear) Consequently, savecore also
> looks for dumps on sd0b and fails, because there is no such thing.
> Essentially, I don't really have a major problem,  it just bothers me that
> savecore can't work because it can't find the swap partition, where the
> kernel core would normally be in case of a crash.   I would not have this
> issue if I could tell config to set up the kernel to look for the swap
> partition on sd1b.

Well, tell it to "dumps on sd1b".

        -is