Hello,
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 09:18:55AM -0700, BoB KoT wrote:
>
> My present boot manager(booteasy) installed by FreeBSD's sysinstall
> utility onto the MBR of the hard drive can only boot partitions 3
> and 4 above. My only method of booting Debian is with the rescue
> floppy. I'm trying to avoid putting lilo into the MBR.
>
> I am trying to get grub to boot all 3.
> grub> debug
> grub> fstest
> grub> root (hd0,4)
> <2, 0, 1024><2, 0, 24><128, 0,204><16, 0, 204> Filesystem type unknown,
> partition type 0x83
>
> At this point the ext2fs (which does exist on that slice of the extended
> partition) should get mounted, but it is not. Hence trying to issue a
> kernel
> command finds no files.
> Similar results trying
> grub> root (hd0,6)
> Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x83
>
> /dev/hde5 63 204862 204800
> /dev/hde6 467007 598078 131072
> /dev/hde7 204863 467006 262144
I assume that what the BIOS detects as hd0 is what Linux identifies as the
/dev/hde (Is this right ?).
What I do not understand with your example is that you tried (hd0,4) that is
/dev/hde5, and (hd0,6) that is /dev/hde7, both without any file system (see
above).
After that you show your fstab, where you mount /dev/hde9 or 11, that is
(hd0,8) and (hd0,10). What don't you try, first, (hd0,8) ?
Other question. The *BSD bootloader put in the MBR modifies the way the
partition of the disk is stored (since the PC standard one is not optimal;
but we are accustomed with...). How this can interfere with the
identification of the partitionning ? Somebody knows ?
Cheers,
--
Thierry LARONDE, Centre de Ressources Informatiques, Archamps - France
http://www.cri74.org/
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