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- From: neal@neal.ctd.comsat.com (Neal Becker)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: swap problems - Not Again!
- Message-ID: <NEAL.92Aug13080724@neal.ctd.comsat.com>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 13:07:24 GMT
- Sender: usenet@udel.edu (USENET News Service)
- Organization: COMSAT Labs
- Lines: 57
- Nntp-Posting-Host: neal.ctd.comsat.com
-
- 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!
-