From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1GwFbz-0006AL-Sk for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 05:20:48 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GwFbw-00065z-5W for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 05:20:44 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GwFbu-00063h-NN for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 05:20:43 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GwFbu-00063D-9a for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 05:20:42 -0500 Received: from [85.25.136.128] (helo=delta357.server4you.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GwFbu-0000R4-3U for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 05:20:42 -0500 Received: from lucy.informatik.uni-freiburg.de ([132.230.167.28]) by delta357.server4you.de with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GwFbp-00084Y-J3 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:20:37 +0100 Message-ID: <45866B74.1000807@emmenlauer.de> Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:20:36 +0100 From: Mario Emmenlauer User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061117) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <4586331C.2070000@lockie.ca> In-Reply-To: <4586331C.2070000@lockie.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 132.230.167.28 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: mario@emmenlauer.de X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Mon, 27 Mar 2006 13:42:28 +0200) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on delta357.server4you.de) Subject: Re: Partition table entries are not in disk order X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:20:44 -0000 James Lockie schrieb: > Can I fix this without deleting the partitions "Partition table entries > are not in disk order"? Yes. From linux fdisk, (fdsik /dev/) choose the advanced menu (by pressing x, afaik), then choose the entry for correcting partition ordering (press 'm' anytime to get some help on commands). You should know that afterwards your partitions will be in the order they are on disk, meaning all (or some) numbers might change. That means you might have to adjust your /boot/grub/menu.lst, and also your /etc/fstab, probably. afterwards, you will get (on disk): /dev/hda1 /dev/hda2 /dev/hda3 ... > What caused it? your last partitioning, probably. It often happens when you delete one partition in the middle and insert two or more in the remaining space. It can also happen when you start adding partitions at the end. if you for example had: /dev/hda1 /dev/hda2 < delete, enter two new partitons /dev/hda3 after entering the two partitons ordering is: /dev/hda1 /dev/hda2 /dev/hda4 < wrong ordering /dev/hda3 Note that this is not really a problem for linux. Cheers, Mario