-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 26.08.2012 14:32, Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 25.08.2012 13:13, schrieb Florian Philipp: <SNIP> >> At this point, my partition table looked like this: >> >> Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 >> 1049kB 316MB 315MB primary ntfs 2 316MB 750GB >> 750GB extended 5 317MB 424MB 107MB logical ext2 >> boot 6 425MB 22.4GB 22.0GB logical ext3 7 22.4GB >> 28.9GB 6441MB logical linux-swap(v1) 8 28.9GB 750GB >> 721GB logical >> <SNIP> > Turns out, I was wrong in thinking the immediate problem was > solved. In fact, the system just booted of the memory stick without > me noticing. I've now finally solved by re-creating the boot > partition without MiB-alignment, just good old cfdisk. So, the > working partition scheme looks like this: > > Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 > 32.3kB 316MB 316MB primary ext2 boot 2 316MB > 750GB 750GB extended 5 317MB 424MB 107MB logical > ext2 6 425MB 22.4GB 22.0GB logical ext3 7 22.4GB > 28.9GB 6441MB logical linux-swap(v1) 8 28.9GB 750GB > 721GB logical > > Is there an explanation for this? >
Hi there, if my eye-integrated diff doesn't deceive me the problem was, that your old bootpartition was ntfs. Since grub doesn't support ntfs that's an easy explanation. Your boot partition is the first one on the drive, isn't it? WKR Hinnerk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJQOjN3AAoJEJwwOFaNFkYclu4IALAP/vyTUTiDolDjGyo2CBAH T3dWl+9nw482HKdISpHyki9MzwMc/ObMokdpmwY4e1RrReCorHK5jCGxBQTa1wpo C4l+aTPCsAhnZDMWKcJeL/EMB4dZeKVFEG2JxISJvBxFVrUcyzuv384+Dk/5UehE /Do6kDALnnmhk3b6X13xlrj9dQOQ6S0S5940Qz6DfN4FtedDnkZrVr0csCTWwl5q eWom3D8jpUul4hqvnRzTh6Er89ORWfDCcARBXSYNiAmp6lawUMa7dF8mIO5P6cB/ Viv0qE/myxGnvezlH745NEneGyuPSePEz4G9Qya3e5MYV7zmE4CU2DUcUEiebSw= =IwzC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----