4.1.1 Swap Only

2007-12-25 7:17:00

The problem was:

>

> With SunOS 4.1 I was able to boot a SS1 from a SS1+ server

> and had only the swap at a local disk. I achieved this

> with the following statement in the config file:

>

> config vmunix root generic swap on sd2

>

> With SunOS 4.1.1 I am unable to do this. I tried:

>

> - config vmunix root generic swap on sd2

>

> - config vmunix root type nfs swap on sd2

>

> - config vmunix swap on sd2

>

> - config vmunix swap generic # and in the servers bootparams:

> client root=server:/n/client swap=/dev/sd2b

>

> Nothing did the job. Does anybody know what I have to do?

>

The solution is to use:

    config vmunix swap on type spec sd2

                          ^^^^^^^^^

Many thanks to:

     "Matt Crawford" <matt@oddjob.uchicago.edu>

     Kennedy Lemke <Kennedy_J_Lemke@princeton.edu>

     Tad Guy <tadguy@abcfd01.larc.nasa.gov>

     cpe@aus.sun.com (Christian Peter - SUN Sydney - Software Support)

     dennett@kodak.com (Charlie Dennett)

     dmorse@sun-valley.stanford.edu

     dws@corp.sun.com (Dennis Sexton)

     era@niwot.scd.ucar.edu (Ed Arnold)

     gallacch@pluto.crd.ge.com (MaryBeth Gallacchi)

     mark%isis.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.berkeley.edu (mark kraitchman)

     stern@east.sun.com (Hal Stern - Consultant)

     synaptx!glenn@uunet.uu.net (Glenn Gribble)

     trinkle@cs.purdue.edu

     zjat02@trc.amoco.com (Jon A. Tankersley)

for your fast response!

Martin.

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