wouter pos wrote:
Dear john,Well, In my experience you can boot to desktop without
some new developments in my attempt to install
mandrake 9.0:
Now the bootup can find the module dependencies but
hangs NOW with Enabling swap space!!!
What could this mean???
Greetings Wouter Pos
having a mounted swap partition, but what this is really
saying to my mind is that you somehow failed to have your
/swap partion mounted when you set up the /swap partition.
It's a three part operation, creating your various partitions
formatting them and then enabling them to be mounted, I'm guessing a bit but I would say you failed to properly select the /swap partiton you created, if indeed you did create a /swap partition. It's not unusual for newbies to get a bit confused with the mandrake partitioning formatting
and enabling tool,
I know that there is almost certainly a way to format and
mount your /swap partition from the rescue disc, but although
it's a bit of a pain I would suggest you do the exercise again
and take a bit more time and care, remember, create,select,
and format each partition if this is a new installation as it is. There is a possibility that your boot disk might
run you to desktop, whereupon it's quite easy to mount
your swap partition from there.
Oh yes, wait a minute there is an entry required in /etc/fstab
like this,
/dev/hda8 swap swap defaults 0 0(swap may not be /dev/hda8 ?)
I'm guessing that in failing to set up your /swap partition as mounted during the install, this line will be missing
in your /etc/fstab, and therefore it will not get mounted.
However as I say, I have in the past also forgotten to
mount my newly created /swap partition, but it has never
stopped me getting to desktop, but then I have oudles
of physical memory, so I don't think it's an issue when
I make the same mistake, maybe in your case it is an issue.
John
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