On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 07:51:52PM -0700, Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
-> On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Charles Curley wrote:
->
-> > I have been running Red Hat 5.2 for over a year now. I have just put
-> > Mandrake 6.1 on the same system. However, RH 6.0 was a disaster, so this
-> > time I took things carefully: I installed M 6.1 in its own boot and root
-> > partions. BUT I have them both sharing the same swap space. That may have
-> > been an error. I get this error message from dmesg, and no swap partition.
->
-> Um, you've forgotten to send the error?
Oops, mea culpa!
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Unable to find swap-space signature
Unable to find swap-space signature
sysctl: ip forwarding off
->
-> > 1) Is there any way to allow the two installations to share the same swap
-> > space?
-> >
-> > 2) Failing that, is there anything short of re-installing with a new swap
-> > partition I can do? Such as: back up the Mandrake root and boot
-> > partitions, twiddle the partitions, restore the partitions, re-run LILO?
-> >
-> > Thank you.
->
->
-> Worst comes to worst you can fiddle with the rc.sysinit and have it
-> reformat the swap on each boot, but i wasn't aware the format changed.
Arrg!
Under RH 5.2 I tried that manually, with:
# mkfs /dev/sda7
and it put an ext2fs file system on the partition. I then tried:
# mkfs -t swap /dev/sda7
mkfs.swap: No such file or directory
So I don't think it will will work when I reboot to L-M.
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