-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Alastair McKinley wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Using FC4 on my laptop here. Tonight I rebooted and the thing took > minutes to boot up for no appartent reason including many long tense > moments of blank screens. > > The only error message I noticed was it failed to start up swap. When > I try to start it from the command line this happens: > > [root@localhost alastair]# swapon -v /dev/sda5 > swapon on /dev/sda5 > swapon: /dev/sda5: Invalid argument > > And in dmesg: > > Unable to find swap-space signature > > Here is the partition table of my hard disk: > > [root@localhost alastair]# parted /dev/sda print > Disk geometry for /dev/sda: 0.000-76319.085 megabytes > Disk label type: msdos > Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags > 1 0.031 40967.226 primary ntfs boot > 3 40967.227 51214.570 primary fat32 lba > 4 51214.570 72270.351 extended lba > 5 51214.601 52499.179 logical > 6 52499.210 72270.351 logical ext3 > 2 72270.352 76316.132 primary fat32 > Information: Don't forget to update /etc/fstab, if necessary. Not sure how, but it looks like the swap partition is not of type 82 any more. the section of my fdisk -l is: /dev/sda7 3201 3264 514048+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris the Solaris belongs on the previous line however > > > So what has happened to my swap? I hope this is also the reason for > the very slow boot! Any ideas? I'd either fire up fdisk and make the #5 partition type 82 or make a swap file. Yeah I think that might cause some slowness in your boot especially if you have 256 or less memory. Good Luck Scott > > Cheers, > > Alastair > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF+giy5mBKdb7VQEcRAuf+AJ4kMZZkqzfobu1NA+P261wurcTvggCgq9FK MBQvnWj+fwFzE6M0Q6yZ+bA= =iAaS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
