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Re: grub problem with primary partition



On Sat,19.Jul.08, 11:50:10, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Sat,19.Jul.08, 10:36:44, Peibol wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > As you can see hda3 is the last primary partition and it is beyond the  
> > last logical partition.
> > Debian + grub is on hda6 and it boots ok. But I have other Linux  
> > distribution (Suse) installed on hda3 and when I tried to boot it, it  
> > fails.
> 
> [...]
> 
> > I think that is some problem with the fact that it is a primary  
> > partition after the logical ones.
> 
> Rather that the partition is beyond some limit (32 GB?).
> 
> If you only want to boot it then it should be enough to copy the kernel 
> and initrd to ex.  debian's /boot (but do keep the correct 
> root=/dev/hda3 parameter).
> 
> Disclaimer: I have never used Fedora and I can't guarantee this will 
> even work on Debian.

s/Fedora/Suse/

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
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(Albert Einstein)

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