Tim Nelson wrote:
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On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 20:40:01 +0100, Tim Nelson scribbled:
Greetings fellow Debian'ers-
I've got a system (Lenny, kernel 2.6.26-2-486)that occasionally
fails to
boot fully. The last item noted on the console is 'Activating Swap
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> On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 20:40:01 +0100, Tim Nelson scribbled:
>
> > Greetings fellow Debian'ers-
> >
> > I've got a system (Lenny, kernel 2.6.26-2-486)that occasionally
> > fails to
> > boot fully. The last item noted
On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 20:40:01 +0100, Tim Nelson scribbled:
> Greetings fellow Debian'ers-
>
> I've got a system (Lenny, kernel 2.6.26-2-486)that occasionally fails to
> boot fully. The last item noted on the console is 'Activating Swap',
> then nothing.
>
Greetings fellow Debian'ers-
I've got a system (Lenny, kernel 2.6.26-2-486)that occasionally fails to boot
fully. The last item noted on the console is 'Activating Swap', then nothing.
I've enabled bootlogd (/etc/default/bootlogd) and verbose mode
(/etc/default/rcS)
Hello Steef,
Last weekend, i had the same problem on an Fujitsu-Siemens Notebook.
But i have no external drive connected to the Notebook.
The Notebook worked fine for weeks and this was the first time, this
issue was observed.
One question:
This Notebook has 768MB of RAM and is only used for Off
Mark Marcacci wrote:
Thanks everyone for the input and advice. It sounds like my
"Activating Swap" issue is a bit different than some of the ones
others have encountered, so I've put some info below that led to a
solution for me that maybe someone else can use:
1) The ma
Thanks everyone for the input and advice. It sounds like my "Activating
Swap" issue is a bit different than some of the ones others have
encountered, so I've put some info below that led to a solution for me that
maybe someone else can use:
1) The machine is a Dell Inspiron 86
On Thursday 02 July 2009, Mark Marcacci wrote:
> The subject line says it all. Just did a clean install of Lenny 5.0.2,had
> had several successful reboots and shutdowns and then tonight from a cold
> start it hung at "Activating Swap". Before this happened, I had connec
Does it hang on it and stops booting?
I'm asking 'cos i had issues with swap a while ago, there was a
message during boot, in red, that would say "failed to activate swap"
or similar, but the boot process continued. Turns out i had a bunch of
programs in /usr/sbin with no permissions at all, chang
On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 07:09:52PM -0700, Mark Marcacci wrote:
> The subject line says it all. Just did a clean install of Lenny
> 5.0.2,had had several successful reboots and shutdowns and then
I don't know why you're having a problem, but I'd suggest the following:
- boot into runlevel 1
Mark Marcacci wrote:
The subject line says it all. Just did a clean install of Lenny
5.0.2,had had several successful reboots and shutdowns and then
tonight from a cold start it hung at "Activating Swap". Before this
happened, I had connected an NTFS drive (using NTFS-3g package
The subject line says it all. Just did a clean install of Lenny 5.0.2,had
had several successful reboots and shutdowns and then tonight from a cold
start it hung at "Activating Swap". Before this happened, I had connected
an NTFS drive (using NTFS-3g package) via USB and copied ove
Turns out it was Bastille leftovers (most likely). A few programs in
/sbin had 000 permissions, including swap* and hwclock (hence my time
issues)... Swap mounts now.
There was supposed to be an undo file in /var/log/Bastille/backup but
i couldn't find none, and purging said package didn't revert
Greetings,
Sometime during boot, i get the message "Activating swap... failed."
('failed' is in red)
The only place in /var/log (that i thought would make sense to search
in) i can find a reference to swap is:
$ cat /var/log/kern.log.0 |grep swap
Mar 21 12:28:37 deb64 k
On Sat, Jan 30, 1999 at 12:12:56AM +, M.C. Vernon wrote:
> No, it will destroy all data on the partition. This is quite an important
> distinction :)
Oops. That's what I meant.
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On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, dan wrote:
> > How do I activate that swap?
>
> You need to setup the swap space first. try 'mkswap /dev/hda5'. It's the
> same as (only different) making a filesystem before mounting in.
>
> This will destroy all data on the drive.
No, it will destroy all data on the pa
> How do I activate that swap?
mkswap
Matthew
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> How do I activate that swap?
You need to setup the swap space first. try 'mkswap /dev/hda5'. It's the same
as (only different) making a filesystem before mounting in.
This will destroy all data on the drive.
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Dan Gohman
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Evening all.
I am trying to setup a secondary swap partition on a different IDE
controller in my system. I partitioned the drive, inserted
/dev/hdc5 noneswap sw pri=0 0 0
into the fstab ( I may be putting the pri=0 option in the wrong place, but
it works with the first swap partition)
Bu
Looks like you are trying to enable the primary partition
as swap. Not sure if that could be a problem. Try to
use one of the logical partitions (/dev/hda5 above) as
swap.
Also, I was told that its not possible to install Windows
in logical partition. let me know if you are able to
install Windo
> At this point I've repartitioned the dev/hda (harddisk) with cfdisk.
> Now, I have the following partitions:
> Partition 1: type 82 (linuxSwap), 32 MB;
> Partition 2: type 81 (Minix), 4 MB;
> partition 3: type 83(linux), 300 MB;
> partition 4.: type 4(?) (dos fat 16), ~ 70 MB;
>
> I h
On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 12:49:29PM +, Ulrich Gruen mails again wrote:
Hi Ulrich,
>
> The problem: When I try to activate the swap-partition, I get the
> following error message: "The swap partition /dev/hda1 could not be
> activated: Device or resource busy"
if the device is busy it is alread
Dear helpful person.
I have a problem with the installation of linux, and I hope that you
can help me. I tried to install Debian linux, with the help of
cfdisk.txt and the "Installing Debian Linux 2.0 For x86" guide. I try
to install with floppies. I have an i386-25 MHz and 4MB RAM, and I'm
using
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