yn Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 11:56:10AM -0500, Brian Ashe wrote: > On Tuesday 12 February 2002 11:39, you said something about: > > First off I'd like to say thanks for the help everyone, I tried a few > > things, and am now pretty sure it's my VIA chipset / motherboard. The > > first thing I did was begin the install so I could setup a swap Partition. > > However... Linux had already done that. When the install got to the > > partition segment, my linux partition was sub partitioned 4 times I > > believe, and 1 was swap, and automatically 2x my ram... Pretty cool > > system. So I backed out of Install, and booted up. > > > > I used 'free' andd got... free total used free > > shared buffers cache mem 191172 47128 144044 > > 0 9876 22980 -/+ buffers/cache 14272 176900 > > swap 0 0 0 > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > This would make it appear that you were decieved about the > presence or at least the initialization of swap space. (see below)
A few things to check. First, make absolutely sure you really do have a swap partition. # fdisk -l /dev/hda (or whatever disk you've installed on) Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 524 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 3 24066 83 Linux /dev/hda2 4 524 4184932+ 5 Extended /dev/hda5 4 134 1052226 83 Linux /dev/hda6 135 200 530113+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hda7 201 524 2602498+ 83 Linux What this tells me is that I really, really do have a swap partition at hda6. Now check to make sure that you're enabling your swap at boot time by looking at /etc/fstab: [ewilts@www ewilts]$ grep swap /etc/fstab /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 Obviously the /dev/hda6 here has to match the /dev/hda6 in your fdisk output. > I really have a lot of those systems running on AMD K62's with VIA chipsets. > While there are known issues with VIA, most of those have been worked around > at this point and they are quite stable. (As I write this from an Athlon with > a VIA chipset in it.) FWIW, this system is a K6-2/350 running on a VIA chipset: [root@www ewilts]# grep -i via /var/log/dmesg PCI: Using IRQ router VIA [1106/0586] at 00:07.0 VP_IDE: VIA vt82c586b (rev 47) IDE UDMA33 controller on pci00:07.1 This system happens to be my web/e-mail server and with 128MB, it's fairly snappy. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
