swap device doesn't activate on startup

[den1jay]

Hi ! I just installed Gentoo couple of days back and today when playing with it found that the swap device doesn't get activated at startup or boot ... I have to manually activate it by 2 commands in bash shell

"mkswap /dev/hda2
swapon /dev/hda2"

i am sick of doing this everytime i boot my linux box. I am using Sony Vaio PCG-FXA10 with 30 gig harddisk, 256 mb Ram and 512 swap device.
Also, i am unable to mount my boot device /dev/hda1so can't copy the new kernel image i compiled to the boot device.

During install i created a /mnt/gentoo/boot which is i think /boot now because Gentoo's / is /mnt/gentoo ... anyways, i am really confused here ...


# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
# $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/etc/fstab,v 1.14 2003/10/13 20:03:38 azarah Exp $
#
# noatime turns off atimes for increased performance (atimes normally aren't
# needed; notail increases performance of ReiserFS (at the expense of storage
# efficiency). It's safe to drop the noatime options if you want and to
# switch between notail and tail freely.

# <fs> <mountpoint> <type> <opts> <dump/pass>

# NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts.
/dev/BOOT /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 1
/dev/ROOT / xfs noatime 0 0
/dev/SWAP none swap sw 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto 0 0

# NOTE: The next line is critical for boot!
none /proc proc defaults 0 0

# glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for
# POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink).
# (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will
# use almost no memory if not populated with files)
# Adding the following line to /etc/fstab should take care of this:

none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0


If my system picks up my root partition from /etc/fstab file then i think "fstab" is written correct ... any suggestions what shall i do ...
Is it a bug in gentoo ???

Another thing i found was If my system stays turned on for like some 2 days then it gets very slow, my RAM just gets shit, though i don't run any program at all. I run KDE ... and when i reboot my laptop it just doesn't reboot, so i have to manually take out the power cable and battery to restart it.

Is this a bug with Gentoo or KDE or is my laptop **cked ???

Please Help me ... Thanks in advance.

Regards, Jay.

[arrruken]

Well I hope what you posted wasnt your fstab...
If it is, you didnt change anything, where it says "/dev/BOOT" you need to manually edit it to say "/dev/hda1" etc etc. Youll need to do that for /dev/ROOT which I assume will be "/dev/hda2" or "/dev/hda3" depending on which one is your swap partition.
If you did copy the your kernel to /boot and configured lilo/grub right, your system will still boot despite the fact that you have no filesystems mounted, though it should give you a good amount of errors.

[den1jay]