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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!darwin.sura.net!udel!louie!udel.edu!neal From: neal@neal.ctd.comsat.com (Neal Becker) Subject: swap problems - Not Again! Message-ID: <NEAL.92Aug13080724@neal.ctd.comsat.com> Sender: usenet@udel.edu (USENET News Service) Nntp-Posting-Host: neal.ctd.comsat.com Organization: COMSAT Labs Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 13:07:24 GMT Lines: 57 I have a recent 386/4Mb with Wd1007V and 150Mb Micropolis EDSI drives. When 0.1 installed, I get "clean of page xxx failed" warnings. A LOT. By the hundreds. I read the messages saying this was due to swap not being on a cylinder boundary. I have battled this for a couple of weeks now. In my most recent feeble attempt, I tried the 0.1 install but told it to use the whole disk. This did *not* fix the problem. Disklabel showed the dreaded asterisks on the swap partition! I made a disktab entry and disklabeled. Now I have this: # /dev/rwd0d type: ESDI disk: neal label: flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 35 tracks/cyl: 8 sectors/cyl: 280 cylinders: 1022 rpm: 3600 interleave: 1 [...] size offset fstype fsize bsize cpg ------ ------ ------ ----- ----- --- a: 275240 0 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 0-982 b: 10080 275240 swap 983-1018 c: 285880 0 unused 0 0 0-1020 10080 is a multiple of 280. No more cursed asterisks!! Now I newfs'd, and installed manually. One note here, since I did not participate in the great 0.0 experiment, I can't find any instructions on how to install manually. Here's what I did (trial and error): 1. mount -u /dev/fd0a / 2. mount /dev/wd0a /mnt 3. zcpio -pdm /mnt < /etc/baselist.Z 4. cd /mnt; zcpio -idm < /etc/baseutils.cpio.Z 5. shutdown Then boot off hd. This is OK. Next, I used mread to load bin01 into /tmp. Then I used extract. This went OK. 6. Shutdown 7. Reboot. No good. Says there's no /etc/fstab. 8. Make /etc/fstab. Put this in it: /dev/wd0a / ufs rw 1 1 9. Reboot again. This time it boots OK (after manually running fsck).! 10. SAME PROBLEM AGAIN!@!!!!! clean of page xxx failed!@!!! Hundreds of them! Help!