The following reply was made to PR port-i386/37009; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: jnemeth@victoria.tc.ca (John Nemeth)
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, port-i386-maintainer@NetBSD.org,
	gnats-admin@NetBSD.org, netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: port-i386/37009: unable to use swap partition found on USB drive
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 03:39:05 -0700

 On Jan 5, 10:22pm, jjhartley@gmail.com wrote:
 }
 } >Number:         37009
 } >Synopsis:       unable to use swap partition found on USB drive
 } >Arrival-Date:   Thu Sep 20 10:15:00 +0000 2007
 } >Originator:     James Hartley
 } >Release:        4.0_RC1
 } >Description:
 } Additional swap partition on an attached USB drive specified in /etc/fstab will not be mounted properly at boot.
 } >How-To-Repeat:
 } Create a swap partition on a USB drive, eg. /dev/sd1b & add an entry to this swap partition to /etc/fstab:
 } 
 } /dev/sd1b none swap sw 0 0
 } 
 } Leave the USB drive attached & reboot.
 } 
 } The order of initialization is:
 } 0.  run swapctl -A
 } 1.  mount other partitions defined in /etc/fstab & check via fsck
 } 2.  detect USB devices
 } 
 } Other kinds of partitions on a USB drive can be specified in /etc/fstab, & successfully mounted by adding the following to /etc/rc.conf.d/fsck:
 } 
 } start_precmd=fsck_precmd
 } fsck_precmd() {
 }     n=60
 }     echo "delaying fsck for $n seconds..."
 }     sleep $n
 } }
 } 
 } ...which delays the actions of fsck long enough for all USB devices to be detected.
 } 
 } I cannot find an equivalent manner of delaying swapctl.
 
      Try putting the above lines into /etc/rc.conf.d/swap1.
 
 }-- End of excerpt from jjhartley@gmail.com