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#1 2006-12-29 20:23:10
- pianoplayer
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Install won't create a swap partition
I am attempting to installl Arch64 (0.7.2 iso) as the only operating system on a computer with one SCSI hard drive. In the cfdisk menu, it appears that I have created the following partitions of my single disk:
sda1, a 32MB boot partition
sda2, a 2GB swap partition
sda3, 20GB, intended for /
sda4, just under 100MB, intended for /home
cfdisk appears to write the partition, but when I go to specify mount points, the system fails to create a /swap partition. The error message on VC 5 is
swapon: /dev/sda2: Invalid argument
What am I missing?
There installation guide says to "make sure you loaded all needed modules if it's a SCSI, RAID, etc. device." What modules do I need? How do I load them?
Or is the problem something else?
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#2 2006-12-29 20:41:52
- fk
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Re: Install won't create a swap partition
Have you set the partition type to 82 instead of 83? 83 is ext3, 82 is swap/solaris
Have you tried to turn it off and on again?
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#3 2006-12-29 22:07:08
- pianoplayer
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Re: Install won't create a swap partition
Have you set the partition type to 82 instead of 83? 83 is ext3, 82 is swap/solaris
I set the type to 82. I also tried making the swap partition the first partition rather than the second. Same error.
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#4 2006-12-29 22:12:05
- fk
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Re: Install won't create a swap partition
Have you try the 0.8 Alpha Iso?
Have you tried to turn it off and on again?
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#5 2006-12-29 22:43:57
- pianoplayer
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Re: Install won't create a swap partition
Have you try the 0.8 Alpha Iso?
Downloading it now. Will update when I can.
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#6 2006-12-31 02:06:44
- pianoplayer
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Re: Install won't create a swap partition
I was able to perform the default ("Auto-Prepare") partition on the system.
Unfortunately, something else about the install was unsuccessful; I am not able to reboot. I get a grub menu with a command line prompt, and that is as far as it goes.
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#7 2006-12-31 14:10:31
- T-Dawg
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Re: Install won't create a swap partition
whats wrong with using mkswap /dev/hdxy && swapon /dev/hdxy?
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