Re: an error on swapon

To: =?iso-8859-1?q?zheng=20helen?= <zay_tmp@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: an error on swapon
From: Gopalakrishnan Suresh <gsuresh@research.bell-labs.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 08:28:13 -0400 (EDT)
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On Fri, 28 Jun 2002, [iso-8859-1] zheng helen wrote:
> I want to build an environment of virtual space with paging. I run
> /examples/x86/sproc/kernel Image with mkmb2 ,I met the same problem
> with you:an error on swapon("/swapfile").now how about your problem?
> thanks

Hi Helen,

The gmake procedure creates a swapfile in the same directory as the
kernel.  It's just a huge file of zeroes. You should include the swapfile,
as well as the usermain_* executables while doing mkmb2.

i.e.

mkmb2 kernel swapfile usermain_hello usermain_testproc usermain_malloc

--suresh

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an error on swapon

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