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From: Collins Richey <erichey2@××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] build CD boot swap problem
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 15:05:09
Message-Id: 20010714151438.3dc4cfc2.erichey2@home.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] build CD boot swap problem by Daniel Robbins
1 On Sat, 14 Jul 2001 14:21:13 -0600 Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>
2 wrote:
3
4 > On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 01:04:39PM -0500, Grant Goodyear wrote:
5 > > After installing Gentoo from the build CD, several (meaning at least
6 > > three so far) people are finding that, despite a valid fstab, the
7 > > swap partition isn't being mounted at boot time, although "swapon -a"
8 > > will mount the swap partition after the system is up. Polaris
9 > > (on irc) suggests the fix of putting the devfs name in fstab
10 > > (instead of /dev/hdax). I've installed Gentoo rc5 both from
11 > > the i686 and the build CDs now, and I only had the swap problem
12 > > w/ the build CD. Anybody have an idea what's going on?
13 >
14 > Yes, try moving the /etc/rc.d/rcboot.d/06devfsd script back to position
15 > 4. That was a boo-boo. I'm working on new initscripts over here at the
16 > moment, and we'll get this mess resolved for rc6.
17 >
18
19 On my _rc5 system (installed from i586 CD), the 06devfsd script executes
20 at position 3 and this is causing me no problems. devfs, swap, and
21 everything else is working normally.
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23 Collins Richey
24 Denver Area
25 Gentoo_rc5 XFCE