I used fdisk and created hda1 as type 82 linux swap/solaris. I created hda2 as the slash partition. grml2hd now complains about hda1 not seeming to be a linux partition and it's right that could be a solaris partition too. What I don't know is if I create a 20gb partition and leave 256MB without a partition is grml2hd capable of making that 256MB a swap partition by itself or will it freak out again since it wasn't given a swap partition? I could also simply partition the whole 20GB as a single type 83 linux partition and find out if grml2hd will freak out over not having a swap partition available. Normally when possible I make the swap partition the first since that way I have the right size for it and on versions of Linux that will allow it I can use the rest of the drive for remaining partitions.