Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!husc6!rice!sun-spots-request From: micky@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu (Micky Liu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Help with swapon(8) Message-ID: Date: 22 Feb 89 09:17:16 GMT Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 24 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1989 19:56:40 EST X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 163, message 16 of 18 I have a Sun 3/140 running SunOS 3.5 with two disk drives. Previously I had the kernal configured to use swap partitions on both drives with something like "swap on sd0 and sd2"... Lately, (with some other problems) I thought it would be nice if I could actually boot off of either drive seperately, but under normal operations I would still like to have a swap area on both drives. My plan was to rebuild the kernal with "swap generic" and just add a "swapon -a" in my rc.local. When I do this, however, I get something like: /dev/sd2b no device... nAny clues? If I try to invoke "swapon /dev/sd2b" directly I get some block device error... If I ever get this part to work, what portions of the root are absolutely necessary to have my Sun boot? Thanx, Micky Liu arpa: micky@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu uucp: ...!rutgers!columbia!eastend!m-liu bitnet: malua@cuvmc