Boot problems with second Arch install on an IDE drive

I have two SATA II drives and two IDE drives (one HDD and one optical) in my box. I had Arch installed on first SATA II drive (/dev/sda). I changed the mkinitcpio files to load sata modules before pata, and that works okay. So, my IDE HDD is now /dev/sdc
However, I installed a second Arch onto the /dev/sdc (IDE) and it won't boot. It goes through booting process and hangs at checking the drives claiming that the /dev/sda3 has bad superblock. Now, this is really odd, because /dev/sda3 is a SWAP partition, and the init script is trying to run e2fsck on it.
How do I fix this? Should I simply (somehow) disable the filesystem check?
(Before you ask, I need the second Arch to build a LiveCD.)

It's correctly identified as Linux Swap partition. Besides, the first Arch install is still working with that swap partition reporting no problems at boot time.
Here's the output of fdisk -l:
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160040803840 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x4a424a41
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 3824 30716248+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 3825 7654 30764475 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 7655 7903 2000092+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda4 7904 13982 48829567+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 7904 13982 48829536 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdb: 400.0 GB, 400088457216 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 48641 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x4fa7b7a5
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 48641 390708801 42 SFS
Disk /dev/sdc: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9964 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xec0c2373
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 1 5 40162 83 Linux
/dev/sdc2 6 136 1052257+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdc3 137 1666 12289725 83 Linux
/dev/sdc4 1667 9964 66653685 83 Linux
And just in case, the menu.lst used to boot both Arches:
# (0) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda2 ro vga=791
initrd /boot/kernel26.img
# (1) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux Fallback
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda2 ro
initrd /boot/kernel26-fallback.img
# (1) Windows
title Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
# (2) Arch Linux
title ArchGem
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sdc3 ro vga=791
initrd /kernel26.img
# (3) Arch Linux
title ArchGem Fallback
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sdc3 ro

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