Hi,
How is the default swap partition picked when booting?
More accurately when going to multiuser mode.
On one of our Digital Unix V4.0B systems, when booting to
multiuser mode using file genvmunix, the default swap
partition selected is /dev/rz0b. The swap areas in
/etc/fstab are rz13b, rz10b, rz11b, and rz12b.
The system disk is rz13. We do have an rz0 disk.
I'd like rz13b to be picked.
The system will boot to single user mode using genvmunix.
But when booting to multiuser mode, it fails at the
very beginning of (or just before) multiuser level with
the following error.
WARNING: /dev/rz0b swap partition has unused fstype,
failed to addswap. : Swap is set to lazy (over
commitment) mode. The system will come up to single-
user mode. Set fstype for swap partition to "swap"
using "disklabel -s <device> swap" command and reboot.
/dev/rz0b is not marked swap because it is NOT to be used
as swap. The operating system was originally built on a
system with /dev/rz0b and /dev/rz0b was the swap disk at
installation time but this is no longer wanted.
--Lew
Received on Wed Sep 02 1998 - 15:06:42 NZST