Re: while installing, can't get swapon to work for sun4u
Package: boot-floppies
Architecture: sparc
Version: 2.1.8.1
>>>>> "Steve" == Steve Dunham <dunham@cse.msu.edu> writes:
Steve> Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> writes:
>> >> set to linux swap type, no flags, mkswap it, then run swapon --
>> >> again, "invalid argument".
>>
>> >>>>> "Mark" == Mark W Eichin <eichin@thok.org> writes:
Mark> This may be a red herring, but I used to see that all the time
Mark> with swap *files* on x86 2.0... because for some reason you had
Mark> to "sync" between the mkswap and swapon or the kernel would read
Mark> the disk block instead of the buffered block, or something like
Mark> that. Couldn't hurt to try...
>> This is strange. It works perfectly in linux now, now that I have
>> the base system installed. So I don't think that's it.
Steve> The bootfloppies use different code, which doesn't seem to get
Steve> along with the Ultra kernel.
The upshot is that on the Sun4u kernel, you can't add swap in dinstall
right now, or even at the console with swapon.
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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