Re: can't activate swap
I also have rebootet before I formated the disk, I tried it thousand
times, no matter what I did, I always got "swapon failed - drive or
resource busy"
I also tried other HDs, another RAM, nothing helped.
> you didnt mention that you rebooted, that message is very common when you
> do not reboot. some system configurations REQUIRE it. make sure you
> reboot BEFORE you try to format the drive, otherwise you will probably
> screw the whole drive up.
>
> nate
>
> On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, FreeMan wrote:
>
> c-3 >I already tried what you told me. But it didn't work.
> c-3 >A made a swap partition with 24MB (of course I changed the type
> c-3 >to Linux Swap), formatted the partition with mkswap, but when I
> c-3 >tried swapon I always got "swapon: device or ressource busy"
> c-3 >
> c-3 >> On 27 Feb 2000, FreeMan wrote:
> c-3 >>
> c-3 >> c-3 >Hi,
> c-3 >> c-3 >
> c-3 >> c-3 >I'm trying to install Debian 2.0 on an old Compaq-computer, but I
> c-3 >> c-3 >can't even activate the swap partition. I always get the error
> c-3 >> c-3 >message "can't activate swap - device or ressource busy".
> c-3 >> c-3 >What am I doing wrong or is it probably a problem with the chipset?
> c-3 >> c-3 >(I'm using a Compaq ProLinea 3/25zs with a WDC-chipset, i386/25
> c-3 >> c-3 >Processor and 4MB RAM - I tried various harddisks)
> c-3 >>
> c-3 >> login as root, run fdisk, find the swap partition
> c-3 >>
> c-3 >> then quit fdisk
> c-3 >>
> c-3 >> type mkswap /dev/XXXX
> c-3 >>
> c-3 >> where XXXX is the device name for the swap partition
> c-3 >>
> c-3 >> then swapon /dev/XXXX
> c-3 >>
> c-3 >> to turn it on, see what happens. some systems you have to reboot after
> c-3 >> you change the partition table (before you even format the partition), if
> c-3 >> it still doesn't work include a listing of fdisk -l <device> where
> c-3 >> <device> is the name of your hdd (/dev/hda /dev/hdb /dev/sda /dev/sdb etc)
> c-3 >>
> c-3 >> nate
> c-3 >>
> c-3 >> nate
> c-3 >
> c-3 >
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