Hi all :) I have no partitions on my disks, I use the full device (/dev/hda and /dev/hdb) as my filesystem under Linux with no problems. The MBR of each disk have the IBM partition label signature (that 0x55AA) and Linux identifies them as IBM empty partition tables.
Isolinux and LILO have no problems with this, but grub seems to have. When I run 'grub' I have: grub> find (hd0,0)<TAB> Error 21: Selected disk does not exist. The same command under an identical system, same hardware, even hard disks but the disks have one partition, works without problems, so I think that is the empty partition table which is causing problems. Since my setup is quite uncommon I don't expect GRUB to change for supporting it ;)) but I would like to know a solution. Right now I cannot empty the disks in order to create partitions on them and restore contents afterwards, so my only resource is tweaking the partition table. Could I create a fake partition starting in sector 0 and ending in the last sector so the layout matches the current layout or that won't work? I mean, the disk is currently: 0 X ·------------------· | MBR | Filesystem | ·------------------· well, the MBR is currently the first sector of the ext3 filesystem. What I want is to add a partition starting at 0 and ending at sector 'X' in MBR. Will it work? Thanks a lot in advance :) Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado -- Linux Registered User 88736 http://www.dervishd.net & http://www.pleyades.net/ It's my PC and I'll cry if I want to... _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub