Hi, try making hda1 the linux partition, and hda2 swap; I think grml2hd looks at the first partition. I got it to work that way when I tried it. Marcel At 09:59 a.m. 12/08/2007, you wrote: >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. > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup