Of course you can put swap space on LVM, in fact, this is from the defaults chosen by anaconda. You can also put swap in a file instead of it's own partition. Craig On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 11:46 -0800, sport wrote: > Are you sure you can put swap space on LVM? I have never done it, and > think it may be a bad idea anyway. You want the fastest partition or > partitions to be swap, and usually I put it on a primary partition. > Also, you can shut off selinux by passing the kernel parameter selinux=0 > I don't know off hand how to pass kernel parameters to an installation > kernel, but I'm pretty sure it can be done. In fact I had to do it once > to shut off the apic with noapic, I just don't remember how I did it. > The kernel parameters how to will tell you though. That's not the exact > name, but it's something like that. > > good luck > > On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 10:37 -0700, Craig White wrote: > > On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 09:53 -0600, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > > > Michael Satterwhite wrote: > > > > Aaron Konstam wrote: > > > >> On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 08:43 -0600, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > > > >>> Rikke D. Giles wrote: > > > >>>> On 11/24/2006 08:42:49 PM, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > > > >>>>> That said, my install runs through the point that it tries to boot. It > > > >>>>> reaches the point that it says: > > > >>>>> > > > >>>>> Mounting local filesyste [Failed] > > > >>>>> Enabling local filesystem quotas [OK] > > > >>>>> Enabling /etc/fstab swaps > > > >>>>> > > > >>>>> At this point, the boot hangs and goes no further. I've noted that > > > >>>>> other > > > >>>>> people have reported the same problem. > > > >>>> Hey Michael, > > > >>>> > > > >>>> Did you turn off SE linux? Hmm, or maybe it's enabled by default until > > > >>>> you hit the first boot sequence. Anyway, that could be a problem, it > > > >>>> might not be recognizing your drives because its not familiar with the > > > >>>> labels given (via Kubuntu or whatever). > > > >>> No, I didn't. Actually, I don't remember a prompt that asked me about SE > > > >>> Linux. > > > >>> > > > >> The problem is that it is called SELINUX (the cr was unfortunate) and > > > >> you are asked whether you want to use it during the install. If you are > > > >> having install and boot problems I would disable it. At first, at least. > > > > > > I just read a review of FC6 available today on Linux Today. The review > > > says that SELinux is enabled by default and can't be turned off until > > > after the installation is complete. This would coincide with my memory > > > of not being prompted about SELinux during installation. If the article > > > interests you, it's at > > > > > > http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/netos/article.php/3645261 > > ---- > > yeah, firstboot allows you to turn it off but that doesn't take effect > > until you restart again. > > > > I would doubt that your problem has anything to do with SELinux or NTP > > (that was simply a wild guess by Anne). > > > > The failure you list above would appear to be struggling with trying to > > activate the swap memory and I have no idea what chose in manual > > configuration but normally, a swap partition is automatically created in > > the partition druid portion of the installer (anaconda) and by default, > > the druid would create a boot partition and a single LVM partition which > > would be sub partitioned into a swap and a single partition for > > everything else like this... > > > > # fdisk -l /dev/hda > > > > Disk /dev/hda: 203.9 GB, 203928109056 bytes > > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24792 cylinders > > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > /dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux > > /dev/hda2 14 24792 199037317+ 8e Linux LVM > > > > and then checking fstab... > > # cat /etc/fstab > > /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults > > 1 1 > > LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults > > 1 2 > > devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 > > 0 0 > > tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults > > 0 0 > > proc /proc proc defaults > > 0 0 > > sysfs /sys sysfs defaults > > 0 0 > > /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults > > 0 0 > > > > Anyway, whatever is listed as swap memory in /etc/fstab doesn't appear > > to actually be available when you tried to boot. > > > > If you want, you could boot with the following parameters passed at > > boot... > > > > linux rescue > > > > then once booted, you can change your chroot... > > > > chroot /mnt/sysimage > > > > and then finally get what is listed in /etc/fstab so you can check if > > such a partition exists for swap. > > > > You can 'display' LVM volumes (but I gather you didn't use LVM) with the > > command... > > > > lvdisplay > > > > Craig > > >
