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Subject: Re: Improperly nested partitions, help needed!
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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.