> install as without swap on 10GB drive withour touching this 170MB at all. > > > then (after booting installed system) > > dd if=/dev/zero bs=512k count=1 of=/dev/your_170MB_whole_disk (like > /dev/ad1) > > and > > swapon -a /dev/ad1 > > > if it works - put > > /dev/ad1 none swap sw 0 0 > > in /etc/fstab
Thanks for the reply. I did as you described above: # dd if=/dev/zero bs=512 count=1 of=/dev/ad1 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 512 bytes transferred in 0.01<something> secs ... which looks good I'd say. But the swapon command returned a warning message: WARNING: reducing size to maximum of 67108864 blocks per swap unit I wasn't sure if that is ok. As a simple test I unpacked a rather big tarball and hoped the system would swap. Eventually it did try to swap it seems, because I got a lot of the following error messages from ad1: ad1: TIMEOUT - WRITE retrying (0 retries left) LBA=2152 ad1: FAILURE - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=5<ABORTED,ILLEGAL_LENGTH> These messages are repeated a number of times with different values for LBA, finally it stops with swap_pager: I/O error - pageout failed; blkno 292, size 28627, error 5 Could this be because I didn't tell the system the correct geometry settings and it still thinks I have a 18863/255/63-disk? _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
