mkswap on every boot

[Michael A. Peters]

On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 21:54, Andrew Robinson wrote:

You should be able to boot off of a Linux CD and use pdisk to change the
partition without having any impact on the other partitions. I use to do
this all the time with my LinuxPPC 2000 install CD (the one that booted
into WindowMaker) - but any Linux install CD that gives you a shell
should allow you to.

In fact - I have even modified the partition map of disks with mounted
partitions from within Linux - but pdisk in OS X is more restricting in
that respect.

> 
> I'm late to this thread so I hope I'm not spewing nonsense. I have a 
> similar problem with LinuxPPC on my Mac clone. Turns out I forgot to set 
> the partition id to Linux swap (82?). I'm afraid to try to set it now 
> because I don't want to mess up my Mac partitions. So I have to run 
> mkswap and swapon when I boot into LinuxPPC.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Andrew Robinson
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