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I recently did a full install of RH6.0 after removing RH5.2 (wanted to
try a different disk arrangement).  After installing during the boot
sequence I received two error messages from swapon - that the
permissions for /dev/hdb10 were insecure and that /dev/hdb10 did not
exist.

At first I thought that the two messages were linked, now I do not think
so.  I took swapon's suggestion and changed the permissions of
/deb/hdb10 to 0600 and that fixed the insecure permissions problem.  But
swapon still believes that /dev/hdb10 does not exist.    I am certain
that it does - I created it during install, and fdisk lists it just
fine.  I have tried manually running (as root) swapon both as:

swapon -a
and
swapon /dev/hdb10

in my /etc/fstab it has the line:

/dev/hdb10 none swap  exec,dev,suid,rw 0 0

From what I understand about the fstab file, this looks right.

I am at a lose to see why swapon does not believe /dev/hdb10 exists.
Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Michael

Well Michael,
Your problem was not quite like mine.  My swap partition problem has gotten
to the point that, no any fdisk program could read the partition table (BUT
win98 and Linux did run).  My solution was to reinstall the EZ-drive, which
meant to change the cmos setting on the drive. After that I remove EZ-drive,
set the cmos back with LBA turn on (make sure the cylinder limitation jumper
is removed).  Install win 95 then booted from a rescue disk set up the
partition table.  Then finally did the linux install in expert mode( this
mode really did not seam any different than custom).  Well all seams well,
tonight I get to config everything else, maybe install the scsi card and
sound card sitting in the corner.

Good luck everyone,
David

Quote:> I recently did a full install of RH6.0 after removing RH5.2 (wanted to
> try a different disk arrangement).  After installing during the boot
> sequence I received two error messages from swapon - that the
> permissions for /dev/hdb10 were insecure and that /dev/hdb10 did not
> exist.

> At first I thought that the two messages were linked, now I do not think
> so.  I took swapon's suggestion and changed the permissions of
> /deb/hdb10 to 0600 and that fixed the insecure permissions problem.  But
> swapon still believes that /dev/hdb10 does not exist.    I am certain
> that it does - I created it during install, and fdisk lists it just
> fine.  I have tried manually running (as root) swapon both as:

> swapon -a
> and
> swapon /dev/hdb10

> in my /etc/fstab it has the line:

> /dev/hdb10 none swap  exec,dev,suid,rw 0 0

> From what I understand about the fstab file, this looks right.

> I am at a lose to see why swapon does not believe /dev/hdb10 exists.
> Any suggestions?

> Thanks,
> Michael