Uhm... Edgy beta LiveCD *doesn't* on my laptop.
Ergo reopening.

I think the script which is supposed to find my swap partition is: 
/usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/casper-bottom/13swap.
I can't understand what's wrong with it: I know it's run without any error (see 
casper.log, which I'm going to attach) and I've checked that my swap partition 
is of type SWAPSPACE2, but no swap line is put into my fstab.
If I manually do a "swapon /dev/hda5", it gets activated without any problem.

Some info which may be useful to debug:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# fdisk -l /dev/hda
Disk /dev/hda: 20.0 GB, 20003880960 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38760 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1       16257     8193118+   b  W95 FAT32
/dev/hda2           16257       16783      265072+  1c  Hidden W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda3           16783       34585     8972302+   5  Extended
/dev/hda5           16783       17819      522081   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda6           17819       33931     8120857   83  Linux
/dev/hda7           33932       34585      329301   83  Linux

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# cat /etc/fstab
unionfs / unionfs rw 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nosuid,nodev 0 0

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# dd if=/dev/hda5 bs=4086 skip=1 count=1 2>/dev/null | dd 
bs=10 count=1 2>/dev/null | hd
00000000  53 57 41 50 53 50 41 43  45 32    |SWAPSPACE2|
0000000a

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# cat /proc/cmdline
BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper 
xforcevesa initrd=/casper/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=1048576 root=/dev/ram rw -- 
acpi=force locale=it_IT console-setup/layoutcode=it


** Attachment added: "My /var/log/casper.log"
   http://librarian.launchpad.net/4666693/casper.log

** Changed in: casper (Ubuntu)
       Status: Fix Released => Unconfirmed

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swap partitions not automounted by the LiveCD
https://launchpad.net/bugs/62868

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