After tried 15.04 with swap 1701mb, 14.04 will not work with a Swap partition of this size.

Asked by Hey!

I'm really sorry if this will sound really weird and for posting this here, but i'm kind of curious.

Yesterday a tried 15.04 to confirm if a problem that I’m having was also happening in this version.

Like always, i deleted my swap and / partition and created new ones.

This time i have chosen 1701mb to Swap and the rest to /. I never tried this Swap size before.

It worked, but since the problem was also present in 15.04 and i found it to be a little buggy on my system i wanted to install 14.04 again.

I did the same thing and chose 1701mb to Swap and the rest to /.

This time 14.04 would not boot. It froze on the black screen before the completely purple one and would not pass that. When i left the pen connected, it would bip like an alarm.

First i thought that i ruined the computer, but i tried installing with another swap size and it worked.

After this happened, i tried three times that amount, always with the same result.

What could possible have happened?

Was this cause by 15.04 or did i won some kind of lottery?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
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How much RAM does the system have?

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Hey! (press-1p-start) said :
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Hi.

The computer have 4gb of ram, but since is 32bit Ubuntu recognizes 3.4.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
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That's because you are either using 32bit OS, or you have an onboard video chip using some RAM.

With 4Gb RAM, you want a 4.4Gb swap space.

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Hey! (press-1p-start) said :
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Hi.

Yeah i know.

I just wanted to know why 14.04 doesn't work with that swap size after it was working with 15.04.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said :
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