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From: smcarey@rodan.syr.edu (Shawn M Carey)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Swap on wd1b, how?
Date: 21 Aug 1994 02:15:41 GMT
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
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Keywords: swap dev wd1b

In article <jhupp.383.0014B4FA@NovellNet.Gensys.com> jhupp@NovellNet.Gensys.com (Jeff Hupp) writes:
> I am running FreeBSD 1.1R.
> Today I installed the second IDE drive.
> The drive is labled so partition a and e are ufs and b is swap.
> I have modified my and added /dev/wd1b as a swap partition, like wd0b.
> I have also modified fstab to mount /dev/wd1a and /dev/wd1e, they both work 
>as expected.  But swapon -a gives me device not configured.  What have I done 
>wrong or not done?
>

Are you running a GENERIC* kernel?  If not, then perhaps you modified
the "config" line in your kernel config file to not use wd1 as a swap
device?

config		"386bsd"	root on wd0 swap on wd0 and wd1 dumps on wd0
							^^^^^^^
-Shawn Carey