Thank you sir, I will give that a try.
Alvin Oga <aoga@mail.Linux-Consulting.com> wrote:
On Sun, 2 Oct 2005, Jeremy Merritt wrote:
> Windoze is installed on /dev/hda1
k
> /dev/hda1 * 1 2433 19543041 7
> HPFS/NTFS
k .. that agrees with your prior statement
> /dev/hda2 2434 4865 19535040 f
> W95 Ext'd (LBA)
that is windoze too ...
what happend to hda3 and hda4
> /dev/hda5 2434 3197 6136798+ 83
> /dev/hda6 3198 3337 1124518+ 82
> /dev/hda7 3338 4865 12273628+ 83
> /dev/hdb1 * 1 3188 25607578+ c
k .. its windoze again
> /dev/hdb2 3189 7298 33013575 83
k .. back to linux again
> /dev/hdb3 7299 7476 1429785 5
k.. this is a "real" extended partition
> Here is a directory output of /dev/hdb2/boot/grub:
good on list of grub files ( hdb2 )
> BIOS is set to look at hdb first,
okay... but grub still
thinks of it as (hd1)
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> Someone else on the debian-user
> list said you cannot boot from within an extended
> partition.
donno ... i never boot from anything other than hda1 or hda2
( or hdb or hdc or hdd ) ...
- it's asking for $100M cash if you try to boot
from non-standard partitions on any random mb
and randm bios with random bootloaders
> > > root (hd1,1)
that will try to use /dev/hdb2 ... good
> > > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-686 root=/dev/hdb2
good
> > > root (hd1,1)
> > > Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xf
> >
> > why is it type "f" ??? it is NOT linux ...
> > --------------------------------------------
it is "type f" because grub thinks hd1 is /dev/hda
also based on your bios boot-sequence
you should be using root (hd0,1) aka what grub thinks as
/dev/hdb
- manually edit it with grub menu before
it boots and fails
( e for edit -> change 1 to 0 -> esc -> b for boot )
c ya
alvin