Still get the same problem, the swap file is reported as being created ok, but still crashes with the above error.
I still have no idea what the error means but I think part of the problem MAY be that it is booting at too high a resolution (1024x76 which is not supported by my laptop.
I am exasperated though - booting from a cd which has not changed however it did work fine and yet now appears broken - I would have thought that impossible!

Mike