From: Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Cc: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: Re: Improperly nested partitions, help needed!
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 12:19:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C9A2C8A.5070904@cfl.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100921145445.GQ8579@caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
On 9/21/2010 10:54 AM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>> 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).
This sounds like a bug in grub. It should not be looking for an EBR
inside a non extended partition, so if there happens to be some old data
there that looks like one, it should not matter.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-22 16:39 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
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 [this message]
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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