Bug 141316 - The updated kernel kernel-2.6.9-1.6_FC2 does not recognise the swap partition
Summary: The updated kernel kernel-2.6.9-1.6_FC2 does not recognise the swap partition
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 2
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Dave Jones
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-11-30 11:13 UTC by Christophe Osinski
Modified: 2015-01-04 22:13 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-02-13 04:43:08 UTC
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Description Christophe Osinski 2004-11-30 11:13:50 UTC
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Description of problem:
The default istallation of Fedora Core 2 (kernel-2.6.5-1.358) came
with 2Gb of swap. When I rebooted with the altest version of the
kernel (kernel-2.6.9-1.6_FC2) updated using up2date, it marked at boot
that it couldn't load the swap partition, and when I run top it prints:
Swap:  0k total

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.9-1.6_FC2

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot with the kernel version 2.6.9-1.6_FC2
    

Actual Results:  No Swap!

Expected Results:  top shows:
Swap:  2040244k total

Additional info:

Comment 1 Dave Jones 2004-11-30 16:55:54 UTC
what are the results of..

swapon -s

fdisk -l

grep swap /etc/fstab


Comment 2 Christophe Osinski 2004-11-30 17:57:16 UTC
swapon -s

gives nothing, but

fdisk -l

gives me the following output:

Disk /dev/sda: 163.9 GB, 163928604672 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19929 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
 
   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1          13      104391   83  Linux
/dev/sda2              14       19675   157935015   83  Linux
/dev/sda3           19676       19929     2040255   82  Linux swap

while

grep swap /etc/fstab

gives me the following output

/dev/hde3               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0

I have a SATA disk and the installation of Fedora Core 2 recognized it as
/dev/hde, and it seems that it is the point

Comment 3 Dave Jones 2005-02-13 04:43:08 UTC
indeed, that hde should be an sda3.

seems due to the fact that libata appeared post 2.6.5 and changed the device node
that you use.

Ouch.  Short of fixing it up by hand, there's not a lot else we can do.



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