Hi Paul, >> After booting my system hangs while trying to activate the swap >> partition. My fstab is something like: >> >> /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0 >> >> Even if I try to comment this out the system doesn't boot. I can boot >> using the rescue CD, but I don't know how to fix this. Can anybody give >> my a clue? > > Are you sure that it's trying to activate swap when it hangs? Are you > booting with "rhgb quiet"? Actually not. I can see the kernel starting with "rhgb quiet". The last thing is see on the graphical screen is: automount starten: _ After a timeout it switches back to text mode saying: SWAP-Bereich aktivieren: [ OK ] _ So I was wrong, obviously swap is activated and automount has a problem. # cat /etc/fstab # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol02 /amandatapes swap defaults 0 0 /dec/hdc /media/cdrecorder auto pamconsole... /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto pamconsole... Oliver.
