Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 21:56:04 -0400 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: Dru <genisis@istar.ca> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ram drive on 4.0 Message-ID: <20000516215604.E58707@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005162120280.560-100000@genisis>; from genisis@istar.ca on Tue, May 16, 2000 at 09:29:06PM -0400 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005162120280.560-100000@genisis>
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On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 09:29:06PM -0400, Dru wrote: > > Is there a tutorial anywhere for adding a RAM drive to FreeBSD 4.0? The > recipe I used in 3.x no longer seems to be valid. Here's what I've gotten > so far from my searches and manpage reading: > > Tried swapon -a but get this message: > > swapon: /dev/ad1s1b: Device not configured > > So I doublecheck /etc/fstab which does contain: > > /dev/ad1s1b none swap sw 0 0 > > (Also tried the line mentioned in the handbook, but got same error as > above, but worse as refused to mount my filesystems) > > Check /dev which does have an entry for ad1s1b, so I try: > > sh MAKEDEV ad1s1b > > It does it's thing, still not configured. Reboot, still not > configured. Also doublecheck my kernel config file to verify options MFS > is not remmed out. > > Any other hints to try? First of all, was this drive detected at boot? # grep ad1 /var/run/dmesg.boot Second, is the disk labeled? # disklabel -r ad1s1 -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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