Re: Custom Kernel and Swap

2011-10-04 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Tom H wrote: > On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Dom wrote: >> On 04/10/11 17:34, Tom H wrote: >>> >>> In menuconfig, "General setup" then "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM >>> disk (initramfs/initrd) support". >> >> Which has nothing to do with swap fles. > > Thanks.

Re: Custom Kernel and Swap

2011-10-04 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Dom wrote: > On 04/10/11 17:34, Tom H wrote: >> >> In menuconfig, "General setup" then "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM >> disk (initramfs/initrd) support". > > Which has nothing to do with swap fles. Thanks. Somehow swap got turned into initramfs in my brain... I'm

Re: Custom Kernel and Swap

2011-10-04 Thread Dom
On 04/10/11 17:34, Tom H wrote: On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: There probably is a kernel configuration option for enabling/disabling swap file support. Make sure you have it set properly. I never mess with it, but I seem to remember running across it during kernel con

Re: Custom Kernel and Swap

2011-10-04 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: > > There probably is a kernel configuration option for enabling/disabling > swap file support.  Make sure you have it set properly.  I never > mess with it, but I seem to remember running across it during > kernel configuration. In menuconfig

Re: Custom Kernel and Swap

2011-10-04 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:14:11 -0500, Brian Sutherland wrote: > Debian (Squeeze) runs with a blank fstab. How is that?! Mine is full of useful things, like swap mount point, partitions and all that "useless" stuff ;-) > I am not sure exactly where the magic is on that but when I upgrade my > k

Re: Custom Kernel and Swap

2011-10-03 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 03 Oct 2011 15:14:11 -0400 (EDT), Brian Sutherland wrote: > > Debian (Squeeze) runs with a blank fstab. I am not sure exactly where > the magic is on that but when I upgrade my kernel and use "make-kpkg --initrd" > to put it all together I lose my swap. So I know could add it to the fsta