enabling swap space

[Ayan]

the mahine hangsup when
ENABLING SWAP SPACE is encountered during bootup....??

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[Reuben D. Budiardja]

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

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mi, den 30.06.2004 schrieb Ayan um 5:32:
> the mahine hangsup when
> ENABLING SWAP SPACE is encountered during bootup....??

Where do you see that message? During graphical bootup I guess. So
please switch to console 1 by pressing Alt+Ctrl+F1 and see what's really
going on. Often the "hangup" is just that the filesystems are fsck'ed.

Alexander

[Tom Mitchell]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 04:00:44PM +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Mi, den 30.06.2004 schrieb Ayan um 5:32:
> > the mahine hangsup when
> > ENABLING SWAP SPACE is encountered during bootup....??
>
> Where do you see that message? During graphical bootup I guess. So
> please switch to console 1 by pressing Alt+Ctrl+F1 and see what's really
> going on. Often the "hangup" is just that the filesystems are fsck'ed.

If it is not doing a file system consistency check (fsck) then this
might be one of the acpi or dma mismatches that haunted lots of laptop
users.  The archives are full of them and there were some hints in the
release notes as well.