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From: "Grégoire Sutre" <gregoire.sutre@gmail.com>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Improperly nested partitions, help needed!
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 17:23:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C98CE09.90601@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100921145445.GQ8579@caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>

On 09/21/2010 16:54, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

>> What does improperly nested mean: overlapping, or something else?
>>
>> How to resolve this problem? According to fdisk the sda1 and sda3 partitions are _not_ overlapping:
>> Additionally, does the same warning have to be repeated so many times for every kernel entry???
>
> It did not say they overlapped.  It said it found a partition table
> inside sda3 which is improper given it is not an extended partition
> (sda4 is).

I'm pretty sure that the warning message ``improperly nested'' really
is about partition nesting as discussed e.g. in [1].  It's not about
extended partitions.


But I agree that the problem at hand may come from this:

> If so, then there is a chance that the first sector of sda3 contains
> the old extended partition table, and grub probe might be detecting that.


Grégoire

[1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2010-01/msg00320.html


  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-21 15:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-21  7:31 Improperly nested partitions, help needed! Svante Signell
2010-09-21 13:13 ` Isaac Dupree
2010-09-21 20:23   ` Isaac Dupree
2010-09-21 13:59 ` Grégoire Sutre
2010-09-21 14:54 ` Lennart Sorensen
2010-09-21 15:23   ` Grégoire Sutre [this message]
2010-09-21 19:42   ` Svante Signell
2010-09-21 20:18     ` Lennart Sorensen
2010-09-21 20:29       ` Svante Signell
2010-09-21 21:11         ` Lennart Sorensen
2010-09-21 22:54     ` Grégoire Sutre
2010-09-22 16:19   ` Phillip Susi
2010-09-22 16:44     ` Lennart Sorensen
2010-09-22 17:08       ` Grégoire Sutre
2010-09-22 17:44         ` Lennart Sorensen
2010-09-22 18:00           ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-09-22 20:57             ` Brendan Trotter
2010-09-22 21:13               ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko

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