Charles Curley wrote:
> 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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