Re: swap partition
You can just run swapon by hand:
bash# swapon /dev/hd0s2
and the /etc/fstab can look just like it does for Linux or BSD:
/dev/hd0s2 none swap sw 0 0
or:
/dev/hd0s2 swap swap defaults 0 0
are the same (and the same as "swapon /dev/hd0s2" will do). After you've
editted fstab, you can do "swapon -a" to do everything in fstab, and that
will tell you if you've gotten the format right ("swapon -a" is exactly
what gets run by /libexec/rc at boot time).
The essential thing is to have the /dev node you need set up already:
bash# cd /dev; ./MAKEDEV hd0s2
You should make nodes for all the disks and partitions you have, and it
doesn't hurt to make nodes for devices you don't actually have:
bash# cd /dev; ./MAKEDEV hd{0,1,2,3}{,s1,s2,s3,s4}
If you really need swap to be enabled earlier in the boot process, the
other way to do it is in /boot/servers.boot; but if that seems to be
necessary then there is probably something else wrong that we should look
into.
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