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- From: philipr@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Philip Rhoades)
- Subject: Situation deteriorating - SCSI? Swap Part.? - HELP!
- Message-ID: <philipr.725063305@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU>
- Summary: Booting prob on 4th install - swapper
- Keywords: install prob scsi swap X
- Sender: news@ucc.su.OZ.AU
- Nntp-Posting-Host: extro.ucc.su.oz.au
- Organization: Sydney University Computing Service, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 22:28:25 GMT
- Lines: 36
-
- I posted a note earlier about a problem getting X going at all on a
- second machine - details:
- 386DX - Western Digital (old)
- 4Mb RAM
- Adaptec SCSI 1542 controller
- Seagate ST3283N 240Mb Hard Drive
-
- The first installation I didn't worry about a swap partition or file -
- I got 0.98.5 installed alright and the boot disk created. When I started
- up X there were problems, no amount of configuring helped so I conclude
- it was a memory problem and decided to add swap space as a file - that
- didn't work so I decided to re-install with a swap partition. After two
- attempts to get that right I try to start from the boot disk.
-
- The system appears to be working alright - it detects the SCSI drive etc
- but then stops with the following message:
-
- task[0] (swapper) killed: unable to recover
- Kernel panic: Trying to free up swapper memory space
- In swapper task - not syncing
-
- I don't know where to go from here - both the main partition and the
- swap partition should be active shouldn't they?
-
- Any help from linux/scsi gurus? I am really keen to get Linux going -
- it looks great from what I have read.
-
- Thanks in advance,
-
- Phil
-
- --
- Philip Rhoades
- First Year Biology
- University of Sydney
- phil@biox.bio.su.OZ.AU or philipr@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU
-