OS: RedHat 7.2 (grub that ships with it) I have many partitions and wish to play hide'n'seek games with the 2 sets of Windows 98 and Windows 3.11 partitions. Alas, GRUB does not CLEARLY state in the info-doc that these games can only be played with the PRIMARY partitions. Further, when I type "hide (hd0,<TAB>" it shows me a list of ALL 11 partitions BUT only "works" on the first 4. That is not what I need so I intend to BEAT it into what I need :-)
Here's what it says when I hit TAB: grub> unhide (hd0, Possible partitions are: Partition num: 0, Filesystem type is fat, partition type 0x1b Partition num: 1, Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 Partition num: 2, Filesystem type is fat, partition type 0x16 Partition num: 4, Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xb Partition num: 5, Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 Partition num: 6, Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 Partition num: 7, Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 Partition num: 8, Filesystem type is fat, partition type 0xe Partition num: 9, Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x82 Partition num: 10, Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 Partition num: 11, Filesystem type is fat, partition type 0xe nothing PAST '3' works! ARGH! I think I can use "parttype (hd0,x) 0x*" (hints on *?) but the documentation has no reference in the hide/unhide to this command so I'm not sure it's a good idea. Otherwise, I intend to grab the GRUB source and 'beat-to-fit' for my applications. Why bother? Win98 screws with Win3.11 partitions and the fact that Win3.11 is installed there. On the other hand, Win 3.11 needs to have the drives arranged in a certain way because this is a legacy system and MUST be working. Linux is used to manage this whole mess and also do backups. So, not a 'bug' but certainly quite misleading on the doc's part. A reference to the parttype command in hide/unhide is also requested. Examples would be nice. I'll write it up when I'm done... and this will be soon, easy or hard way :-| Cheers, Fil __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
