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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!new-news.sprintlink.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!unlisys!bb-data.de!news From: mib@bb-data.de (Martin Ibert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Help needed with NetBSD 1.1/Amiga: Cannot configure second swap partition Date: 13 Jun 1996 07:45:20 +0200 Organization: BB-DATA GmbH, Berlin, Germany Lines: 31 Sender: mib@losira.ppe.bb-data.de Message-ID: <ulohsmf4f.fsf@losira.ppe.bb-data.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: losira.ppe.bb-data.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 Hi, I have put a spare SCSI hard disk into my Amiga and want use some of it as another swap area. (Hopefully) I have configured the drive with the AmigaOS hard disk toolbox. After some false starts, I can access the other two partitions on the drive with newfs and mount, but how to enable the second swap area still eludes me. I can see the parition as such, I can even newfs it or dd zeros to it. But if I try to swapon it, I get a "device not configured" error. So I thought, maybe the problem is not with the partition at all; maybe the kernel needs to be configured for another swap area. I then edited my kernel config file, replacing the "netbsd swap on generic" statement with "netbsd root on sd0 swap on sd0 and sd1". But no joy; the kernel won't link. It is missing a function (was it autoconf in module setconf or the other way around? I'm away from the machine right now). I even put in two "config" lines; the one with the "generic" clause gives me a kernel, while the other doesn't. What I am I doing wrong? Please answer quickly, or by mail; I will be on holiday from Saturday, unable to read news. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dipl.-Inform. Martin Ibert, BB-DATA GmbH, Brunnenstraße 111, D-13355 Berlin >> e-mail <mib@bb-data.de>, phone +49-30-245-56582, fax +49-30-245-56577 << --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Disclaimer: My views do not necessarily reflect those of my employer. <<