Jim Shaffer (jshaffer@pennet.net) wrote:
: The installation documentation states that "until you compile your own
: kernel your swap partition must exist on the drive that also holds your
: root partition."
: 
: My question is twofold:
: 
: 1) Why?

It's the canonical single disk case. 
It's switched on by the "swap generic" part in the kernel
config line, usually at the end of the config file.

: 2) How does one change this?

Replace "swap generic" by , e.g., "swap on sd0b sd1b sd2b" to enable
swap on sd0b or sd1b or sd2b.

Regards,
	Ignatios Souvatzis