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- From: tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu (Mark Tinguely)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: Swap problems
- Message-ID: <19362@plains.NoDak.edu>
- Date: 26 Jul 92 13:55:15 GMT
- Article-I.D.: plains.19362
- References: <1992Jul26.035657.16509@news2.cis.umn.edu>
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- In article <1992Jul26.035657.16509@news2.cis.umn.edu> rodeen@buddha.ncc.umn.edu (Rick Odeen) writes:
- >When trying to recompile the kernel for the first time today I started
- >getting messages something like:
- >
- >/386bsd: error 0 blkno xxxx sz 4096 swap_pager_finish: clear of page xxxxx failed.
-
- at least with 0.1 wd driver (I have not check 0.1), this error was caused
- because the swap was not on a cylinder boundery. look at the output of
- the disklabel command; if there is a star after the swap parrtition's cylinder
- number, then move the swap so it is on a whole cylinder.
-