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Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
> 
> During booting of mt BL2 I get the info that my 
> swapon dev/hda5 is an: Invalid argument
> When I look in dmesg I get: 
> Unable to find swap-space signature.
> In cfdisk I checked and hda5 is a valid swap partition of
> approx. 30 MB.
> Did I miss something? Is my swap partition not used?

Two things are required to make a swap partition:
(1) cfdisk             (assign partition for swap)
(2) mkswap /dev/????   (in this case ????=hda5)


Cheers,
Steven