At Fri, 14 Mar 2003 11:47:15 +0100, mi wrote: > But anyway, it's an explanation why grub was damaged, here on a dell inspiron > 5000 after bios-hibernating. The hibernation partition, created with cfdisk + > lphdisk, was the very first one, a primary.
How did you create the hibernation partition? Before or after installing GRUB? Also, which version of GRUB did you use? > Who was it, grub, or the BIOS, requesting me to insert the 'correct > originally HD' when i booted the damaged one ? Probably BIOS. > And about Grub, why is there "free space" after the mbr ? At least in this > case, it seems, there wasn't ! Some free space is usually present. If lphdisk doesn't reserve one track before the first partition, lphdisk should be blamed. > And why don't other bootloaders use it also, then ? ( Perhaps for that reason > ?) Several boot loaders and disk utilities use it, actually. For example, GAG uses it. Thanks, Okuji _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
