From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1NWgJc-0006ty-7t for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:22:00 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NWgJa-0006sp-6o for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:21:58 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NWgJV-0006qT-R5 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:21:57 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50122 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NWgJV-0006qM-K3 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:21:53 -0500 Received: from mail-ew0-f224.google.com ([209.85.219.224]:39830) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NWgJV-0000e3-9L for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:21:53 -0500 Received: by ewy24 with SMTP id 24so2996178ewy.26 for ; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:21:51 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=f5aQ3pU6TRz9zYGH6Thd+lO0sVR7lrI8+zpuZWUZOdI=; b=w05vmxS3XA4kwryElIqwthTV6dJSWahokHiRNmDtQRz5EJp52RQu14ic+NUJ6k32Gr qpcMy/LY/ZShQmJlOO1NFW1rxaMWO3trFWLV2J8G5Qv+V+P0bCwXY28t+mm4m8dlZAAV 05NXIgr/sQLE6bb27LT77STQhYVIXD1cVhROE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=lpjkPEkbA0Z7WfNUXCrPj8EUZR/UhEho5fsMF0HCFDPjn6/OiMJ1EN/E90t7PrB1zU KyqZp1cPaMzyCH+2lWidPK60qu/OtnBoSUw6og7yPCGsMRj9GRG3KWR5ir2y5FWVPjeF ghzVpH6eiyxJxVniR4vPGCYcI3/QYSZWNTcww= Received: by 10.213.50.76 with SMTP id y12mr2313823ebf.39.1263777711838; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:21:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.50? (c2433-1-88-160-112-182.fbx.proxad.net [88.160.112.182]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 7sm5047919eyg.1.2010.01.17.17.21.50 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:21:51 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B53B7AE.3020006@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 02:21:50 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gr=E9goire_Sutre?= User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090707) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GNU GRUB References: <000001ca9756$fae87380$f0b95a80$@com> In-Reply-To: <000001ca9756$fae87380$f0b95a80$@com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Subject: Re: Trouble booting from a large USB hard drive X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 01:21:58 -0000 Daniel Richard G. wrote: > Knowing that Windows would only mount the > first partition when the drive was plugged in Does this only apply to external hard drives? I've always put Linux as my first partition on my single hard drive without any problem (now it's with XP, but AFAIR also with 98SE before). I mean first partition both ``logically'' and ``physically'', e.g. what I have now is: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 2611 20972826 83 Linux /dev/sda2 2612 4569 15727635 7 HPFS/NTFS And if I remember right, the Windows installer (booting from a windows install CD) had the bad habit of renumbering the primary partitions if their logical order was not consistent with their physical order. At least it did it once, and I've never played with out-of-order partition tables since ;-) Grégoire