> P ntfs 300 GB Windows XP SP3 32 Bit > P ntfs 300 GB Windows 7 32 Bit > P ext2 100 MB /boot > E > L swap 2 GB Linux swap > L ext4 250 GB Ubuntu Linux 9.10 (Karmic) 32 Bit > L ntfs 1100 GB data (for data exchange and storage) > L ext4 48 GB spare space for testing of new OSes > > I like to use the first partition as /boot, but there is no requirement > to do that. I think you can use a logical partition too, but I'm not > 100% sure. > > GRUB normally uses a BIOS call as a part of its internal process. The > extended call is defined for up to 2^48 sectors. That is far larger > than any disk available today. Any limitation, if it exists, is in the > BIOS. >
I have applied the partition table mentioned above. Windows 7 Disk Management Tool does not allow to create an Extended Partition on the third Primary partition slot. Thus I used the Ubuntu installer to do it. At first I tried to install GRUB2 from Ubuntu 10.10 (Lucid), but the error message remains :-( Then I tried GRUB1 and succeeded, luckily. Probably there is a problem with the sector offset or the data partition is too large for GRUB1 to skip over. It is > 1 TB. In the actual scheme, the 1.1 TB data partition comes after the root partition (where GRUB is installed). After a kernel update I have to call 'update-grub' manually, but I am happily doing this, it is only a minor glitch of Ubuntu 9.10. If there is a new version of GRUB2 which supports dmraid devices, I happily test it. Maybe it is only a configuration issue, as GRUB2 has become quite flexible. Now I know very well how to restore the GRUB bootloader, I have had much practise. Of course I will do a backup from my RAID0 system soon. The system is very fast. No need to wait for boot and shutdown anymore :-) -- Preisknaller: GMX DSL Flatrate für nur 16,99 Euro/mtl.! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/dsl02 _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel