Swap not starting

[Dave Sherohman <esper@sherohman.org>]

I have a quad-cpu machine running a 2.2.19 kernel with the following
lines in /etc/fstab:

/dev/sda7       none    swap    sw,pri=10                       0 0
/dev/sdb7       none    swap    sw,pri=10                       0 0

but it doesn't start either swap partition until explicitly told to
do so.  The kernel has been patched for md/new-style RAID and
reiserfs support, but reiser is not in use.  I have also installed a
2.4.x kernel (along with the 2.4-capable support packages) on this
machine previously, but it didn't stick.

Any ideas on what might be preventing swap from getting started
automatically at boot?

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