new swap partition has to manually started
 

I added a 256mb swap partition to my external card.
It works but does not get automatically recognized.
That is, I have to do

after the tablet boots.

This is the /etc/fstab line:

Why won't it recognize the swap space at boot, I wonder?

Re: new swap partition has to manually started
 

You need to add a line to /etc/init.d/rc.S

swapon -a

or

swapon /dev/mmcblk1p1

meamo initscripts don't include swap activation.

hope this helps,
kernelpanic

Re: new swap partition has to manually started
 

I don't have "sw", I have "priority=-1" in the options column, and have swap for the mount point. I think it automatically recognized it when it does "mount -a" but I'm not sure. I've reformatted the internal card and would have to retry it.

Normally you can copy the line from /proc/mounts or /proc/swaps into /etc/fstab (and making sure you don't copy noauto).