ok - so edit fstab On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Micha Feigin <mi...@post.tau.ac.il> wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Sep 2010 13:01:14 +0200 > Tom Goren <t...@tomgoren.com> wrote: > > > use the appropriate /dev/sdaX entry instead of the UUID - something may > be > > messed up with the hash - especially if you have done mkswap already. > > > > It worked for "swapon /dev/sda5" but I need to change the default boot > process to > use that as well. > > > > > > > On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Micha <mi...@post.tau.ac.il> wrote: > > > > > I'm trying to help a friend over the phone, so I don't have all the > > > details, > > > but I would be happy for some pointers if anyone has them > > > > > > The machine with mostly up to date debian unstable on occasion decides > to > > > lock > > > up for several minutes after or at the point of mounting the swap > > > partition. > > > > > > Previous time that happened starting a different kernel solved the > problem. > > > This time all kernels showed the same issue, we though that it was in a > > > hard > > > lockup, but after several minutes it freed up and continued booting. > > > > > > We tried running swapoff -a, mkswap and swapon -a. On the call to > swapon > > > the > > > machine complained about not finding the swap's UUID (which didn't > match > > > the > > > value reported by mkswap). The only information in /etc/fstab regarding > > > UUID is > > > commented out. > > > > > > Any ideas about what the problem is and/or how to disable UUIDs > altogether > > > as > > > they seem to be giving constant trouble? > > > > > > thanks > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Linux-il mailing list > > > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > > > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > > > >
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