Re: can't activate swap
Seems to you were right. I just turned off the swap partition in the
second vt, formated and turned it on again. And that was all! Now it
works.
Thank you!
> Hmmm, this almost sounds like a bug some of the slink (Debian 2.1)
> boot-floppy builds had... have you tried switching to the second vt
> (ALT-F2) and manually turning off the swap partition (swapoff -a), then
> retrying the `activate a swap partition' menu entry.
>
> --
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, aphro wrote:
>
> > dont know what else to suggest other then wiping the whole drive out,
> > rebooting, adding a swap partition, rebooting again, format the partition
> > and try to mount it. ive gotten that error and the above has always fixed
> > it(if you've tried it try again- delete ALL the partitions on the
> > drive). to be safe make sure the swap partition
> > is less then 128MB (you mentioned 24MB for your setup? - newer kernels can
> > support larger swap partitions but just incase..keep it to 128MB or
> > less) make sure its the right type(82 "linux swap"). here is a couple of
> > examples of 2 machines i got running:
> >
> > Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1108 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
> >
> > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> > /dev/hda1 1 15 120456 82 Linux swap
> > /dev/hda2 * 16 197 1461915 83 Linux
> > /dev/hda3 198 1108 7317607+ 5 Extended
> > /dev/hda5 198 379 1461883+ 83 Linux
> > /dev/hda6 380 561 1461883+ 83 Linux
> > /dev/hda7 562 743 1461883+ 83 Linux
> > /dev/hda8 744 925 1461883+ 83 Linux
> > /dev/hda9 926 1108 1469916 83 Linux
> >
> >
> > and for a scsi setup:
> >
> > Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 554 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
> >
> > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> > /dev/sda1 * 1 108 867478+ 83 Linux native
> > /dev/sda2 109 554 3582495 5 Extended
> > /dev/sda5 109 261 1228941 83 Linux native
> > /dev/sda6 262 452 1534176 83 Linux native
> > /dev/sda7 453 518 530113+ 83 Linux native
> > /dev/sda8 519 537 152586 83 Linux native
> > /dev/sda9 538 554 136521 82 Linux swap
> >
> > nate
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, FreeMan wrote:
> >
> > c-3 >I also have rebootet before I formated the disk, I tried it thousand
> > c-3 >times, no matter what I did, I always got "swapon failed - drive or
> > c-3 >resource busy"
> > c-3 >I also tried other HDs, another RAM, nothing helped.
> > c-3 >
> > c-3 >> you didnt mention that you rebooted, that message is very common when you
> > c-3 >> do not reboot. some system configurations REQUIRE it. make sure you
> > c-3 >> reboot BEFORE you try to format the drive, otherwise you will probably
> > c-3 >> screw the whole drive up.
> > c-3 >>
> > c-3 >> nate
> > c-3 >>
> > c-3 >> On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, FreeMan wrote:
> > c-3 >>
> > c-3 >> c-3 >I already tried what you told me. But it didn't work.
> > c-3 >> c-3 >A made a swap partition with 24MB (of course I changed the type
> > c-3 >> c-3 >to Linux Swap), formatted the partition with mkswap, but when I
> > c-3 >> c-3 >tried swapon I always got "swapon: device or ressource busy"
> > c-3 >> c-3 >
> > c-3 >> c-3 >> On 27 Feb 2000, FreeMan wrote:
> > c-3 >> c-3 >>
> > c-3 >> c-3 >> c-3 >Hi,
> > c-3 >> c-3 >> 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 >> c-3 >can't even activate the swap partition. I always get the error
> > c-3 >> c-3 >> c-3 >message "can't activate swap - device or ressource busy".
> > c-3 >> c-3 >> c-3 >What am I doing wrong or is it probably a problem with the chipset?
> > c-3 >> c-3 >> c-3 >(I'm using a Compaq ProLinea 3/25zs with a WDC-chipset, i386/25
> > c-3 >> c-3 >> c-3 >Processor and 4MB RAM - I tried various harddisks)
> > c-3 >> c-3 >>
> > c-3 >> c-3 >> login as root, run fdisk, find the swap partition
> > c-3 >> c-3 >>
> > c-3 >> c-3 >> then quit fdisk
> > c-3 >> c-3 >>
> > c-3 >> c-3 >> type mkswap /dev/XXXX
> > c-3 >> c-3 >>
> > c-3 >> c-3 >> where XXXX is the device name for the swap partition
> > c-3 >> c-3 >>
> > c-3 >> c-3 >> then swapon /dev/XXXX
> > c-3 >> c-3 >>
> > c-3 >> c-3 >> to turn it on, see what happens. some systems you have to reboot after
> > c-3 >> c-3 >> you change the partition table (before you even format the partition), if
> > c-3 >> c-3 >> it still doesn't work include a listing of fdisk -l <device> where
> > c-3 >> c-3 >> <device> is the name of your hdd (/dev/hda /dev/hdb /dev/sda /dev/sdb etc)
> > c-3 >> c-3 >>
> > c-3 >> c-3 >> nate
> > c-3 >> c-3 >>
> > c-3 >> c-3 >> nate
> > c-3 >> c-3 >
> > c-3 >> c-3 >
> > c-3 >> c-3 >--
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> later,
>
> Bruce
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