swap file for linux stopped working: mail #2

["Marcin M. Jessa" <lists%yazzy.org@localhost>]

Marcin M. Jessa wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I used to create a separate SWAP file for linux and define it in my 
> domU config:
> disk = [ 'file:/linux/ubuntu.img,0x301,w','file:/linux/swap.img,sda2,w' ]
> Then just defined swap device as hda2 in linux's fstab.
> But this does not seem to work anymore but I am actually not sure when 
> it stopped working since I until now
> didn't use linux domU to anything serious.
> Any idea what may have broken this config and how to make this work 
> again?
>
>
> Cheers,
> Marcin
I forgot to mention one thing. The root device on Linux is sda1 and the 
swap device is sda2.
Trying to initialize it manually I get following error:

# swapon  -a
swapon: /dev/sda2: No such device or address

# ls -l /dev/sda2
brw-rw---- 1 root root 8, 2 Sep 28  2007 /dev/sda2