Error enabling swap device - invalid argument

[stodge]

I'm getting the following error when trying to install Fedora Core 2:

Error enabling swap device - invalid argument
This most likely means this swap partition has not been initialised

I didn't get this error when first installing Core 2, but I get it every time now. It appears when it's about to start installing packages. I can't see anything in the fdisk utility to enable the swap.

ANy ideas?

Thanks

[ardashev]

I am trying to upgrade from RedHat 9 to Fedora Core 3 and in the beginning of upgrade I get
this pop-up dialog message:

error enabling swap device invalid argument


my swap device is there and working fine , what's goin gon ? Why does'n installer see it ?

I have scsi controller, and the installer does install driver for it ...

[terr9898]

Can you post your /etc/fstab file?

[ardashev]

Here is my fstab file, which shows 8 swapp partitions.
I have looked at them with swapon and they all look alright.

But FC3 complains about invalid argument for swap device /dev/sda6 and does not allow to proceed with upgrade from RedHat9 to FC3.


/dev/sda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/sda2 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/sda3 /home ext3 defaults,usrquota 1 2
/dev/sda5 /tmp ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/sdb1 /home2 ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/sdc1 /home3 ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/sdd1 /home4 ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/sde1 /home5 ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/sdf1 /home6 ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/sdg1 /home7 ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/sda6 none swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda7 none swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda8 none swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda9 none swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda10 none swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda11 none swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda12 none swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda13 none swap defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto owner,noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro,user,unhide 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
/dev/cdram /mnt/cdram iso9660 user,noexec,nodev,nosuid,rw,noauto,unhide 1 1

[ardashev]

FIXED.

I booted with FC3 installation cd1 and went into linux rescue mode.
I checked the swap partitions with swapon command and of course got error message.

Then I remade swap partitions with

mkswap /dev/sda6
........
mkswap /dev/sda13

and the upgrade now continues.


Funny, it looks like FC did not like swap partitions made by RedHat 7.0.
(I upgraded the system from 7.0 to 7.3 , 9.0 and now FC3 )