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Richard Owlett

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Feb 7, 2024, 10:08:37 AMFeb 7
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System description
1. Dell Latitude E6410
2. Grub 2.04-20 [label displayed above boot menu]
Debian Bullseye [11.1] on SDA1
Debian Stretch [9.13] on SDA7 - my day-to-day system
3. 13 GB swap space available at sda5

Questions

When I boot to Stretch, error/warning messages go by to fast to read.
Can they be retrieved after system is running?

How do I automatically enable swap when booting?

[This preparation for updating browser and OS]

TIA

Dan Purgert

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Feb 7, 2024, 10:30:49 AMFeb 7
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On 2024-02-07, Richard Owlett wrote:
> System description
> 1. Dell Latitude E6410
> 2. Grub 2.04-20 [label displayed above boot menu]
> Debian Bullseye [11.1] on SDA1
> Debian Stretch [9.13] on SDA7 - my day-to-day system
> 3. 13 GB swap space available at sda5
>
> Questions
>
> When I boot to Stretch, error/warning messages go by to fast to read.
> Can they be retrieved after system is running?

Should be in /var/log/boot or dmesg. I can't remember if stretch uses
systemd, but if it does, you'll likely need some invocation of
journalctl (but I don't have a system to verify a quick google search,
so don't want to lead too far astray)

>
> How do I automatically enable swap when booting?

have an entry in /etc/fstab to load the swap.

UUID=[THE_UUID] none swap sw 0 0

or with your /dev/sda5

/dev/sda5 none swap 0 0


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Richard Owlett

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Feb 7, 2024, 1:36:06 PMFeb 7
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On 02/07/2024 09:30 AM, Dan Purgert wrote:
> On 2024-02-07, Richard Owlett wrote:
>> System description
>> 1. Dell Latitude E6410
>> 2. Grub 2.04-20 [label displayed above boot menu]
>> Debian Bullseye [11.1] on SDA1
>> Debian Stretch [9.13] on SDA7 - my day-to-day system
>> 3. 13 GB swap space available at sda5
>>
>> Questions
>>
>> When I boot to Stretch, error/warning messages go by to fast to read.
>> Can they be retrieved after system is running?
>
> Should be in /var/log/boot or dmesg. I can't remember if stretch uses
> systemd, but if it does, you'll likely need some invocation of
> journalctl (but I don't have a system to verify a quick google search,
> so don't want to lead too far astray)
>
>>
>> How do I automatically enable swap when booting?
>
> have an entry in /etc/fstab to load the swap.
>
> UUID=[THE_UUID] none swap sw 0 0
>
> or with your /dev/sda5
>
> /dev/sda5 none swap 0 0
>
>

The last line works fine.
Was an obsolete entry of "UUID=[THE_UUID] none swap sw 0 0" form.
Now boots *FASTER* and without any error/warning messages ;}!
Thanks.


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