On Sun, 2 Oct 2005, Jeremy Merritt wrote:
> Windoze is installed on /dev/hda1 k > /dev/hda1 * 1 2433 19543041 7 > HPFS/NTFS k .. that agrees with your prior statement > /dev/hda2 2434 4865 19535040 f > W95 Ext'd (LBA) that is windoze too ... what happend to hda3 and hda4 > /dev/hda5 2434 3197 6136798+ 83 > /dev/hda6 3198 3337 1124518+ 82 > /dev/hda7 3338 4865 12273628+ 83 > /dev/hdb1 * 1 3188 25607578+ c k .. its windoze again > /dev/hdb2 3189 7298 33013575 83 k .. back to linux again > /dev/hdb3 7299 7476 1429785 5 k.. this is a "real" extended partition > Here is a directory output of /dev/hdb2/boot/grub: good on list of grub files ( hdb2 ) > BIOS is set to look at hdb first, okay... but grub still thinks of it as (hd1) --------------------------------------------- > Someone else on the debian-user > list said you cannot boot from within an extended > partition. donno ... i never boot from anything other than hda1 or hda2 ( or hdb or hdc or hdd ) ... - it's asking for $100M cash if you try to boot from non-standard partitions on any random mb and randm bios with random bootloaders > > > root (hd1,1) that will try to use /dev/hdb2 ... good > > > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-686 root=/dev/hdb2 good > > > root (hd1,1) > > > Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xf > > > > why is it type "f" ??? it is NOT linux ... > > -------------------------------------------- it is "type f" because grub thinks hd1 is /dev/hda also based on your bios boot-sequence you should be using root (hd0,1) aka what grub thinks as /dev/hdb - manually edit it with grub menu before it boots and fails ( e for edit -> change 1 to 0 -> esc -> b for boot ) c ya alvin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]