modprobe error?
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Topic: modprobe error?
started by: gekkokid
Posted by gekkokid on April 03 2004,16:43
during boot up and it is scanning for harddisk partitions and creating /etc/fstabi get the following line twice?
modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module minix
is it an error or nothing to worry about?
Posted by roberts on April 03 2004,16:53
You probably made a swap partiton and never formatted it with mkswap. It is usually caused by a mismatch of the listed partition type with what is actually there. Nothing to worry about, but you should correct it.
Posted by gekkokid on April 03 2004,20:33
cheers can i just login as root and enter: mkswap /dev/hda1 or do i have to create a swap file first and do something with swapon etc.?
Posted by roberts on April 05 2004,04:20
You should probably look first.sudo fdisk -l /dev/hda
Which partition is type 82?
The error could also be caused by having an unformatted regular type 83 partition. Do you know what is on your partitions?
Posted by gekkokid on April 05 2004,12:13
i think its a linux swap partition maybe=82, when i created it i set the type