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Offline floppy

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USB boot.
The kernel command line is: initrd=/boot/mycore.gz quiet noisapnp pci=use_crs intel_rng.no_fwh_detect=1 nozswap pause showapps host=hpdc7100 waitusb=2:UUID="1afba5ee-97b5-4eac-bea1-42339ac8225b" tce=UUID="1afba5ee-97b5-4eac-bea1-42339ac8225b" mydata=xorgdc7100 lst=corexorg.lst BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz

That message come up at boot (in the same way it comes like "ramswap skipped" etc.).
For me, its not really a bug, just a misleading message.
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Re: Message "swap recognized" at boot in core4.4 despite no swap exists
« Reply #1 on: April 24, 2012, 10:58:38 PM »
There is nothing in the kernel command line that would prevent the use of an existing swap partition.

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Re: Message "swap recognized" at boot in core4.4 despite no swap exists
« Reply #2 on: April 25, 2012, 11:39:24 AM »
Again:
- there is no swap at all in that pc
- the message at boot (blue letters) say a swap is recognized
this is a bit weird.
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Re: Message "swap recognized" at boot in core4.4 despite no swap exists
« Reply #3 on: April 25, 2012, 11:58:19 AM »
Hi floppy
If you enter   fdisk -l   does it report a swap partition?

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Re: Message "swap recognized" at boot in core4.4 despite no swap exists
« Reply #4 on: April 25, 2012, 02:26:05 PM »
Hi floppy
If you enter   fdisk -l   does it report a swap partition?
result (no swap):

Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks  Id System
/dev/sda1               1        4866    39080960  83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 4040 MB, 4040748544 bytes
125 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1018 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 7750 * 512 = 3968000 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks  Id System
/dev/sdb1   *           1        1018     3944719  83 Linux
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Re: Message "swap recognized" at boot in core4.4 despite no swap exists
« Reply #5 on: April 25, 2012, 03:15:28 PM »
You are mistaken.  4.4 says:
"Possible swap partition(s) enabled."

That is neither incorrect nor misleading.