From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1Oy4hP-0000Cs-5C for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 11:24:03 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=50115 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oy4hL-0000Cf-KD for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 11:24:01 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oy4hK-0006En-HF for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 11:23:59 -0400 Received: from mail-wy0-f169.google.com ([74.125.82.169]:48438) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oy4hK-0006Ed-Bx for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 11:23:58 -0400 Received: by wyb36 with SMTP id 36so7156613wyb.0 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 08:23:57 -0700 (PDT) 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=ekhiWl4lhu8SqMXlNUef+cx39EKahxVoiZ8k3kavRFo=; b=MkO3H5TSNRPKpoPfW9shbpYl1zIC69Mq2P32HFOypkIb9uw/S0aa8SMwEVzappl0eY QNAvOwgIaDqh5ZITUpJB/sNl7J5Gun2noWCf+2ibMrUpvU7VJVoFs/taaBvNNHtte/Vt OjVXUTfbaNuWhrVX1rNQ3I8XGLhdmu15H94BA= 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=fHoriDcJ390KRapuZ9vumHA2hsNzDskDScgMKbauQO+bl8+hXMAsfmPFw3IugcZeMy Aowr6c2ZBO+VpqJkrCCzrnodXqNtFAOYirqmG1JBzU5Q6UPLqEnJpUvuENz+S5rz1Rn7 BcLr4nUzxvRnMcmaoVQR0Ny2dTLgLt8CN9Ca8= Received: by 10.216.11.201 with SMTP id 51mr5786650wex.72.1285082637474; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 08:23:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [147.210.129.4] (laptop-147-210-129-4.labri.fr [147.210.129.4]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id v44sm6082371weq.28.2010.09.21.08.23.55 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 21 Sep 2010 08:23:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C98CE09.90601@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 17:23:53 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gr=E9goire_Sutre?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100723 Lightning/1.0b2pre Shredder/3.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GNU GRUB References: <1285054276.10425.39.camel@hp.my.own.domain> <20100921145445.GQ8579@caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> In-Reply-To: <20100921145445.GQ8579@caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Subject: Re: Improperly nested partitions, help needed! 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: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 15:24:02 -0000 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