[gentoo-dev] build CD boot swap problem

[gentoo-dev] build CD boot swap problem

[Grant Goodyear]

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?

Thanks,
Grant
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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@gentoo.org>
President/CEO					http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.			

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

[Collins Richey]

On Sat, 14 Jul 2001 13:04:39 -0500 Grant Goodyear
<grant@bernacchi.chem.uh.edu> 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?
> 

I installed from the i586 CD, use devfs, and have no swap problems. 
Unfortunately, I don't have a clue what the "build CD" is.

-- 
Collins Richey
Denver Area
Gentoo_rc5 XFCE

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

[Collins Richey]

On Sat, 14 Jul 2001 14:21:13 -0600 Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>
wrote:

> 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.
> 

On my _rc5 system (installed from i586 CD), the 06devfsd script executes
at position 3 and this is causing me no problems.  devfs, swap, and
everything else is working normally.
-- 
Collins Richey
Denver Area
Gentoo_rc5 XFCE

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

[derosa]

> 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?

I just did a full build of everything, including the latest build file (july
something) then followed by an emerge system, followed by building X, and
most of KDE apps and other KDE stuff, cups alsa sox (I think that's it) and
I did not have a problem with swap. I do get oops on the mount and unmount
during startup and shutdown though. Maybe things would work better having
devfs automounted with the kernel command line option ??

Target system is a dual coppermine 933 using an IDE drive for the boot and
swap partitions (hda1 and hda2 respectivly) with the rest of linux on a scsi
drive (sdb7 through sdb11) the drivers for ide and the ncr controller are
built into the kernel, everything else that can be a module (or most of it
...) is a module.

Joe