On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 13:26:03 +0000, David W Noon wrote: > Unless you have the mother of all initrd's or initramfs's, you cannot > have /boot on a logical partition -- only a primary partition, as BIOS > interrupts will only access raw drives and primary partitions.
% fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 640.1 GB, 640135028736 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77825 cylinders, total 1250263728 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x000cd4f9 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 124 1250263039 625131458 5 Extended /dev/sda5 126 2923829 1461852 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda6 2923893 3807404 441756 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda7 3807468 976848389 486520461 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda8 976848896 1250263039 136707072 83 Linux Really? Please don't tell this computer, it's been booting from a logical partition for more than six years. -- Neil Bothwick WinErr 013: Unexpected error - Huh ?
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