I'm not sure, but I think the swap and root partitions both have to be on the primary hard drive- check and see if I'm right root wrote: > The problem I am about to describe existed on RH 5.2 and now exists on Mandrake > 6.1. The Mandrake was installed from scratch, not as an upgrade. I used Disk > Druid to destroy 5.2's partition before repartitioning and installing Mandrake. > > I have installed Mandrake on a 4.3 Connor which is my 2nd of 3 drives. (My > first has win95 and my third has winnt.) This drive has a 200mb dos bootable > partition and the rest of the disk is an (dos created) extended partition in > which linux has 4 drives. This includes hd6, hd7, hd8, hd9 (swap). Strangely, > Disk Druid skipped Hd5. > > For some reason, Linux is unable to access the swap partition. The swap > partition was created with Disk Druid and, after failures to mnt it, recreated > using fdisk (linux's). It is type 0x82 as reported by fdisk. When made using > Disk Druid, it was prepared iaw the installation procedure. When I recreated it > using fdisk, I tried to run mkswap on it. Got an error "No such Device". > > Everytime I have booted linux, the swapon command that occurs during boot up > returns an error "no such device". However, the device is there. Why can't > swapon nor mkswap see this drive? Is it because it exists in an extended > partiton? or because it exist above cylinder 1024? Because it exists in an > extended partition that had been created with win95's fdisk? I have looked high > and low for answer and can't find one. > > I have 128 mb ram so the swap partition is not vital but it bugs me when I get > an error that I can't figure out. > > I am a linux newbie and a newbie to this list. If I should have posted my > question somewhere else, please forgive. > > Note, I boot Linux from floppy because I am a CIS student who can not afford to > break winnt so am afraid to mess with mbr. > > Thanks Tom > > My system > > K6 233 > 128 mb sdram > Mb FIC PA 2007 > Apollo II chipset > 10 gig seagate hd on primary master > 4.3 Connor on primary slave > 1.2 Quantum fireball on Secondary master > Teac 6x cdrom on slave > All windows file systems are Fat16 for obvious reasons.
