Excuse me, I just found this is reported already:
http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=529&group_id=68 sorry On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 07:35:25AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > =================== BUG #1847: FULL BUG SNAPSHOT =================== > http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=1847&group_id=68 > > Submitted by: robertmh Project: GNU GRUB > Submitted on: 2002-Dec-01 12:35 > Category: Disk & Partition Severity: Major > Priority: None Bug Group: Feature Request > Resolution: None Assigned to: None > Status: Open Release: 0.92 > Reproducibility: Every Time Planned Release: > > Summary: can't detect partitions when using "diskwizard" > > Original Submission: I'm using a program provided by my hard disk vendor called >"Disk Wizard". Its installed in the MBR, but it seems that the partition table is >hacked also. > > When you boot the computer using the hard disk MBR, it will ask you for a floppy and >boot it. A GRUB floppy will identify a hard disk with partitions normally here. > > But, when you boot using a GRUB floppy _directly_, it will be unable to identify the >partition: > > grub> root (hd0,1) > Error 22: No such partition > > However Linux, the kernel, is able to detect the partition when "diskwizard" is >_not_ loaded. This is what is outputs when booting: > > [...] > Partition check: > hda: [DM6:DD0] [remap +63] [3649/255/63] hda1 hda2 > [...] > > Please contact me (Robert Millan <zeratul2 at wanadoo dot es>) for any more >information you need. I can get an image of my MBR if that helps. > > > > > No Followups Have Been Posted > > > CC list is empty > > > No files currently attached > > > For detailed info, follow this link: > http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=1847&group_id=68 > -- Robert Millan "5 years from now everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5" Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 30 Jan 1992 _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
