On Tuesday 29 June 2004 11:32 pm, Ayan wrote: > the mahine hangsup when > ENABLING SWAP SPACE is encountered during bootup....?? hmm.. maybe try the following: 1. Edit /etc/fstab, and comment out the line that has "Swap". So you will be running without swap for now (which is OK, temporarilly). 2. Then reboot. Maybe better to reboot and go to runlevel 1 (ie. run linux in single mode). If you don't know how to run linux in single mode from Grub bootloader, please search the web for instruction. 3 Once you get terminal in single mode, try turn on swap manually by using command: $> swapon /dev/hdaX where /dev/hdaX is your swap partition, assuming you're using IDE drive as primary drive. Change X with the partition number, or adjust it to your system. What does it says? Please also, after trying that, give us the ouput of $> free Maybe also the gives us the partition table of your drive, are you sure you have swap partition there? Hope that helps. RDB -- Reuben D. Budiardja Department of Physics and Astronomy The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN --------------------------------------------------------- "To be a nemesis, you have to actively try to destroy something, don't you? Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect." - Linus Torvalds -