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Re: [Xen-users] Mounting swap fails in domU (badiane)

To: Badiane Ka <badiane_ka@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Mounting swap fails in domU (badiane)
From: Ted Kaczmarek <tedkaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 12:59:58 -0400
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On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 09:27 -0700, Badiane Ka wrote:
> > 
> > I had the same problem, did you run the mkswap from
> > the domU?
> > 
> > Have you rebooted the dom0?
> > 
> > Don't know why, but this fixed a problem I had with
> > Debian 3.1 guests
> > using the jaitime.org images. No other distro I have
> > tried seem to have
> > had this problem.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Ted
> I can't run mkswap from the domU; the device doesn't
> exist just like /dev/sda1 (where the root filesystem
> is) is not present but export from the dom0.
> 
> I have rebooted but the problem persists.  I used a
> standard netinst image from the debian site.
> 
> I can't figure it out and have been scrounging the web
> for info.
> 
> Badiane

Make sure the fstab on the domu correlates to what the domU config is.
Also make sure that device is type swap.

Ted


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