Am 26.08.2012 17:58, schrieb Mick: > On Sunday 26 Aug 2012 15:32:23 Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: >> 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? > > Originally the boot partition was on /dev/sda5 which was partitioned as ext2. >
Right. > Was this legacy GRUB Florian? (TBH I'm not sure that it would make a > difference. I can boot here fine from logical non-MiB aligned partitions > with > legacy GRUB.) Right again. Regards, Florian Philipp
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