Re: while installing, can't get swapon to work for sun4u
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.
The bootfloppies use different code, which doesn't seem to get along
with the Ultra kernel.
Steve
dunham@cse.msu.edu
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