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Re: grub as bootloader for linux and windows



--- please reply directly, I'm not on the list ---
***Sorry:***  my first mail was sent accidently before finished.

I intendet to do some more reading and thinking and fiddling on the whole 
thing,  before bothering you....

Anyway. I guess that I don't clearly understand partioning. 

( A second after I opened the Linux-Partiton-Howto my draft was sent to 
you....)
With the described partitioning, grub seems not to be able to find the 
grub-boot-files in /boot/grub which stays within  / -Partition on hda7. The 
Linux-Boot-Partition was logical - this should be no problem - but in this 
case was attached to a first FAT32-Partition ( hda5 ).
May this configuartion is not possible to boot for grub ?

( grub-numbering  .............  size in MB  ..........  device-numbering )

0) Hibernation     = Hidden Win95 FAT32 ( LBA ) .... 550 ... hda1 = prim
1) BOOT: Win2000 = Hidden FAT16 ........................... 50 ... hda2 = prim
2) Exchange   = Win95 FAT32 (LBA) .................... 500 ... hda5 = log1

Linux = ext2:
4) home ....................................... 500 ... hda6 = log2
5) / (inkl. /boot ) ........................  3000 ... hda7 = log3
6) var ..........................................  500 ... hda8 = log4
7) tmp .......................................... 500  ... hda9 = log5
8) swap_linux .............................. 500 ... hda10 = log6
9) free  ....................................... 1500 ... hda11 = log7

Win2000 C:\
3) Win2000 ..........NTFS ............. 4450 ... hda3 = prim3
( inclusive win-swap ) 

I still don't know if grub numbers the physically sequence or the devices  in 
line. So hda11 for grub is Partition no. 2 or no 3 ?  ( Sure I should find it 
out by myself, however now hurrying with a follow-up to my first premature 
request....)


Next I will try without a special /boot-Partition for Win2000, changing the 
partitioning to that:


0) Hibernation     = Hidden Win95 FAT32 ( LBA ) .... 550 ... hda1 = prim1
1) EXCHANGE   = Win95 FAT32 (LBA) .... 500 .... hda3 = prim2

Linux-ext2:

3) home = linux ext2 ........................... 550 ... hda5 = log1
5) / (inkl. /boot ) ...............................  3000 ... hda6 = log2
6) var .................................................  500 ... hda7 = log3
7) tmp ................................................. 500  ... hda8 = log4
8) swap_linux .................................... 500 ... hda9 = log5
9) free  ............................................. 1500 ... hda10 = log6

2) Win2000 = NTFS ......................... 4450 ... hda2 = prim3



Sorry for the confusion....i work with permanent interruption on that, rarely 
find more than a few ten Minutes at once the last weeks....the problem is 
that i'm not a computer ;-)


-- 
Michl.



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