Re: enabling swap space

From: Reuben D. Budiardja (techlist_at_voyager.phys.utk.edu)
Date: 06/30/04

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    Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 09:30:43 -0400
    
    

    On Tuesday 29 June 2004 11:32 pm, Ayan wrote:
    > the mahine hangsup when
    > ENABLING SWAP SPACE is encountered during bootup....??

    hmm.. maybe try the following:

    1. Edit /etc/fstab, and comment out the line that has "Swap". So you will be
    running without swap for now (which is OK, temporarilly).

    2. Then reboot. Maybe better to reboot and go to runlevel 1 (ie. run linux in
    single mode). If you don't know how to run linux in single mode from Grub
    bootloader, please search the web for instruction.

    3 Once you get terminal in single mode, try turn on swap manually by using
    command:
    $> swapon /dev/hdaX

    where /dev/hdaX is your swap partition, assuming you're using IDE drive as
    primary drive. Change X with the partition number, or adjust it to your
    system.

    What does it says?

    Please also, after trying that, give us the ouput of
    $> free

    Maybe also the gives us the partition table of your drive, are you sure you
    have swap partition there?

    Hope that helps.

    RDB

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