we tried the /etc/fstab route with no success. after ipl with the
following /etc/fstab
lnx2142:/etc# cat fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump>
<pass>
/dev/dasd/0201/part1 / ext3 errors=remount-ro 01
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /floppy auto user,noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/dasd/0200/part1 /boot ext3 defaults 02
/dev/dasd/0202/part1 /usr ext3 defaults 02
/dev/dasd/0203/part1 /var ext3 defaults 02
/dev/dasd/0204/part1 /opt ext3 defaults 02
/dev/dasd/0205/part1 none swap sw 0 0
devfs /dev devfs defaults 0 2
............................
a free shows us:
lnx2142:~# free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 250552 31508 219044 0 1496 10928
-/+ buffers/cache: 19084 231468
Swap: 0 0 0
Trying to do a swapon /dev/dasd/0205/part1 at this point gives us:
lnx2142:~# swapon /dev/dasd/0205/part1
swapon: /dev/dasd/0205/part1: Invalid argument
lnx2142:~#
and the console on the vm guest shows:
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 lnx2142 console
lnx2142 login: Unable to find swap-space signature
...........................
after ipl with doswap, free shows this:
lnx2142:/etc# free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 250552 31724 218828 0 1528 11080
-/+ buffers/cache: 19116 231436
Swap: 14988 0 14988
.......................
so we will probably go with the modified rc.boot script
Adam Thornton wrote:
On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 15:04, Scorch Burnet wrote:
0205 was not available because SWAPGEN detached it. Then since we
didn't allow for guests to allocate a V-Disk, SWAPGEN could not build
one. However, commenting out the lines that Adam suggested resolved
this. So, we added the swapgen command to the profile exec:
SWAPGEN 0205 30000 ( FBA )
then created /etc/boot.rc/doswap that looks like:
/sbin/mkswap /dev/dasd/0205/part1
/sbin/swapon /dev/dasd/0205/part1
One thing: you don't need doswap at all.
Just put a line in /etc/fstab:
/dev/dasd/0205/part1 none swap sw 0 0
SWAPGEN does the "mkswap" for you, and the line in /etc/fstab will let
Linux do the swapon at boot.
Adam
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