How to enable Swap partition on CSPPC safely?

Hi everybody,

One thing my CSPPC has always done (which no-one else seems ever to have) is that whenever I set the RDB of the main disk to have a custom filesystem, and don't put said filesystem in the RDB, it throws a major wobbly.
This usually manifests itself by stopping the machine booting completely - it usually even stops the early start-up screen from working.

Now luckily, I know how to fix it (Go into the CS-PPC's startup screen by pressing Escape, disabling the drive responsible, booting from floppy, running SCSIConfig, scanning the bus to enable the drive again, and then running UnitControl to set the bad partition to not automount).

The problem is now I have OS 4.1 on my A4000. This is a problem because the Swap partition doesn't HAVE a filesystem to install onto the RDB.
Hence, when I set it to autoboot from within OS 4.1, it works perfectly. Then I do a cold boot and everything dies.
I need to tell the RDB what the Swap partition is. It has the DOStype set correctly and everything, it's set to CustomFileSystem.

Is there any way to fix this?

Thanks!

Don't set the swap partition to autoboot, only automount.

Best regards,

Niels

I meant automount originally. Would be a bit silly to try and boot from a swap partition :) Even so, though, it still wouldn't cripple the early startup screen, it just wouldn't boot.

Just the existence of a custom filesystem partition being mounted is enough to send it haywire.

Quote:Ah, okay, just wanted to make sure.

Quote:Must be something special with the PPC, I haven't seen this on other systems. I do have a swap partition on my A12k BPPC.

Try asking on the Hyperion support forum, I know there are OS4Classic/A4000/CSPPC experts there.

Best regards,

Niels