Re: Bug#52080: grub: won't recognize ext2 partition when there are *fat ones in front

[Jeff Sheinberg]

Josip Rodin writes:
 > Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1869 cylinders
 > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
 > 
 >    Device Boot   Start      End   Blocks   Id  System
 > /dev/hda1   *        1      256  2056288+   b  Win95 FAT32
 > /dev/hda2          257     1869 12956422+   f  Win95 Extended (LBA)
 > /dev/hda5          257     1562 10490413+   b  Win95 FAT32
 > /dev/hda6         1563     1863  2417751   83  Linux native
 > /dev/hda7         1864     1869    48163+  82  Linux swap
 > 
 > (printout by normal linux fdisk)

Probably caused by GRUB unable to grok partition id `f' as extended
- normal extended is `5', linux extended is `85'.

HTH,
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Jeff Sheinberg  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>