> set to linux swap type, no flags, mkswap it, then run swapon -- again, > "invalid argument". This may be a red herring, but I used to see that all the time with swap *files* on x86 2.0... because for some reason you had to "sync" between the mkswap and swapon or the kernel would read the disk block instead of the buffered block, or something like that. Couldn't hurt to try...