More info, if anyone is interested -- my swap isn't quite working. I get Unable to find swap-space signature errors. It is possible that I overwrote that block, or that the partitions are slightly off. [After some more experimenting] I noticed that gpart reported 2 sectors unallocated between the first partition and the second. When I adjusted the sector specification using fdisk, swap is just fine. gpart still reports the wrong size -- it says 243MB but cfdisk says it is 256MB +/- a hair. 'free -m' also reports the swap as 243MB. Weird.
My partitions are actually a bit larger that gpart reported (based on sector number) and everything seems to be working fine now. Too bad cfdisk doesn't allow specifying the sector number to use -- just the size in MB. Other than that it has excellent reporting abilities. -D
