Bug#569133: GRUB should support Windows LDM or Dynamic Disk partition layout

2010-02-10 Thread Josip Rodin
Package: grub-pc Severity: wishlist Tag: upstream Hi, It seems that GRUB can't read disk partitions that have been converted into Dynamic or LDM format by Windows. This format is a prerequisite for software RAID on Windows, so it would definitely be useful to have. (With modern Windows versions,

grub-pc misdetects md RAID layout and fails to initialize [was Re: grub-pc jumps straight to rescue and prints error: no such disk / file not found]

2010-01-09 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 01:14:47PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 03:00:39PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 02:29:36PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: I've got two disks and a software RAID setup on the partition that holds the /boot directory. I have

Re: grub-pc jumps straight to rescue and prints error: no such disk / file not found

2010-01-03 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 03:00:39PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 02:29:36PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: I've got two disks and a software RAID setup on the partition that holds the /boot directory. I have several Linux software RAID partitions, based on this scheme

grub-pc jumps straight to rescue and prints error: no such disk / file not found

2010-01-02 Thread Josip Rodin
Hi, I've reported this bug in the Debian BTS, to no avail, so I'm cc:ing the upstream address for help. I've got two disks and a software RAID setup on the partition that holds the /boot directory. I have several Linux software RAID partitions, based on this scheme: sda2+sdb2 - Linux

Re: grub-pc jumps straight to rescue and prints error: no such disk / file not found

2010-01-02 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 02:29:36PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: I've got two disks and a software RAID setup on the partition that holds the /boot directory. I have several Linux software RAID partitions, based on this scheme: sda2+sdb2 - Linux amd64 / sda3+sdb3 - Linux i386 / sda4

Re: a LBA-related problem and a few docs patches

2000-04-01 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 05:00:18PM +0900, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote: maximum supported by BIOS". Although the help for the `geometry' command would indicate that I could force it to recognize those extra cylinders, executing `geometry (hd0) 1869 255 63' doesn't work, either. Don't do that!

Re: a LBA-related problem and a few docs patches

2000-04-01 Thread Josip Rodin
Package: grub Severity: normal Version: 0.5.94 On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 05:00:18PM +0900, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote: I can access the whole drive after booting, both from Linux and from Windows. I'm guessing something might have changed, but what? Can anyone give me a hint where to look for

Re: a LBA-related problem and a few docs patches

2000-04-01 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 08:04:14PM +0900, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote: Perhaps. The output of `help geometry' doesn't indicate so. Don't rely on the online help very much. It can help you only to remind yourself of something. When you're stuck without access to your partition where the real

Re: a LBA-related problem and a few docs patches

2000-04-01 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 08:15:49PM +0900, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote: This seems to be a change in behaviour, and gratuitous one, too, because it worked before. Therefore I'm filing this as a bug to the Debian BTS. One could argue that it's of higher severity, because it effectively made my

Re: a LBA-related problem and a few docs patches

2000-04-01 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 04:51:22AM +0900, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote: changing to some other term would be better? For example "Booting"? That sounds a bit more reasonable than "Disk management". But what should we do about mbchk? The utility clearly belongs to the "Kernel" section, but it is

a LBA-related problem and a few docs patches

2000-03-31 Thread Josip Rodin
Hi people, As of two days ago, GRUB in the MBR of my hard drive won't load anything over 1024th cylinder. That day I booted, replaced the linux kernel image with a new copy, rebooted and poof, it halted. Didn't even display an error message. After using a rescue disk, and reinstalling grub into

Re: Bug#52080: grub: won't recognize ext2 partition when there are *fat ones in front

1999-12-15 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Dec 15, 1999 at 06:13:11PM +0900, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote: grub root (hd0,pressed-TAB Error: Partition table invalid or corrupt Did you really see this error message? If a device could not be opened, "Selected disk does not exist" should have happened instead. Yes, that is the

Re: Bug#52080: grub: won't recognize ext2 partition when there are *fat ones in front

1999-12-08 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 12:29:10AM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote: Probably caused by GRUB unable to grok partition id `f' as extended - normal extended is `5', linux extended is `85'. So, is that `f' an anomaly of my system, or a Grub bug? I remember me fixing this bug in GRUB. Could

Re: Bug#52080: grub: won't recognize ext2 partition when there are *fat ones in front

1999-12-08 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 12:29:10AM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote: Probably caused by GRUB unable to grok partition id `f' as extended - normal extended is `5', linux extended is `85'. So, is that `f' an anomaly of my system, or a Grub bug? I remember me fixing this bug in GRUB. Could

Re: Bug#52080: grub: won't recognize ext2 partition when there are *fat ones in front

1999-12-08 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 11:04:18AM -0600, Gordon Matzigkeit wrote: JR Possible partitions are: JRPartition num: 6, Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x82 JR Partition type 0x82 is Linux swap here. `Linux swap' is not a filesystem that GRUB supports. What would you like

Re: Bug#52080: grub: won't recognize ext2 partition when there are *fat ones in front

1999-12-08 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 11:09:08AM -0600, Gordon Matzigkeit wrote: JR Just tried that - the documentation is wrong, the repository has JR been moved to subversions.gnu.org, please update it. It was already updated. There's no way to change the documentation in the old releases so that it

some patches for docs/*.texi and debian/p* files [was Re: Bug#52080: grub: won't recognize ext2 partition when there are *fat ones in front]

1999-12-08 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 12:21:50PM -0600, Gordon Matzigkeit wrote: `Linux swap' is not a filesystem that GRUB supports. What would you like printed instead of `unknown'? Maybe `unsupported' would be better? JR Yes, or print "swap", or not print it at all. It says "possible JR

Re: Bug#52080: grub: won't recognize ext2 partition when there are *fat ones in front

1999-12-07 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 08:15:56PM -0500, Jeff Sheinberg wrote: Josip Rodin writes: Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1869 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 *1 256 2056288+ b

Re: Bug#52080: grub: won't recognize ext2 partition when there are *fat ones in front

1999-12-07 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 10:00:07AM +0100, Per Lundberg wrote: Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What am I doing wrong? Stupid question perhaps, but are you running as root? Of course! Note that I did manage to install Grub through a floppy disk yesterday, although it took me quite

Bug#52080: grub: won't recognize ext2 partition when there are *fat ones in front

1999-12-06 Thread Josip Rodin
Package: grub Version: 0.5.93.1 Severity: normal Hello, GRUB, when invoked with just 'grub' on a working system, which has an IBM's IDE hard disk, 15.2GB in size, with this partition table: Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1869 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device