Re: [gentoo-dev] build CD boot swap problem

[Daniel Robbins]

On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 01:04:39PM -0500, Grant Goodyear wrote:
> After installing Gentoo from the build CD, several (meaning at least
> three so far) people are finding that, despite a valid fstab, the
> swap partition isn't being mounted at boot time, although "swapon -a"
> will mount the swap partition after the system is up.  Polaris
> (on irc) suggests the fix of putting the devfs name in fstab
> (instead of /dev/hdax).  I've installed Gentoo rc5 both from
> the i686 and the build CDs now, and I only had the swap problem
> w/ the build CD.  Anybody have an idea what's going on?

Yes, try moving the /etc/rc.d/rcboot.d/06devfsd script back to position
4.  That was a boo-boo.  I'm working on new initscripts over here at the
moment, and we'll get this mess resolved for rc6.

Best Regards,

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Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@g.o>
President/CEO					http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.