andre999 wrote: > andre999 a écrit : > > correction : >> It might be because you had your "extended" partition at the beginning >> of the disk, and MBR disk partitions are numbered with the "primary" >> partions 1-4 and "extended" 5+.
The Ubuntu installer thinks that there should be a reserved BIOS boot area of at least 1 MB for Grub. Not that that should be necessary if Grub is going into a root partition. >> Gdisk would normally number in disk order, but I'm not sure because I >> have always numbered in disk order with the "extended" partition at >> the end of the disk. With gdisk it is easy to extend an > I meant "With gparted it is easy to extend an ... > (obviously not gdisk) OK After conversion the mbr order is kept until you change it. >> extended partition to the end of disk with gparted (using a live cd >> such as systemrescueCD). >> You can easily check what partition ordering is with gdisk. (From >> systemrescueCD if necessary.) >> In any case, both grub and grub2 can get confused sometimes when >> partition numbering changes. That is one of the reasons that I like LABELs. >> It is only necessary to go into rescue mode on boot (from any Mageia >> boot cd/dvd, or systemrescueCD), and invoke grub to find the >> designated boot partition. >> It gives you a grub prompt. grub has somewhat cryptic but useful help. >> (This may have changed under grub2, but I don't think so.) >> >> Regards :) >> -- blind Pete Sig goes here...
