you were right, (hd0,8) was just nonsense - thank you for your help. I have never been comfortable with extended partitions, and grub's documentation - and strange computations - just confused me.
Best regards .-. Robert GRASSO - CEDRAT S.A. /v\ 10, Chemin de Pre Carre - ZIRST - 38246 MEYLAN Cedex - FRANCE // \\ Tel: +33 (0)4 76 90 50 45 Fax: +33 (0)4 76 90 16 09 /( )\ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ^^-^^ UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn --- Support service : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Commercial service : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web site : http://www.cedrat.com > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Yoshinori K. Okuji > Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 1:23 PM > To: Robert Grasso; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: limited visible partition list > > > On Monday 22 December 2003 19:37, Robert Grasso wrote: > > root (hd0,8): > > Error 22: No such partition > > > > I tried to install grub in the MBR from RH 8.0 (grub v0.92), but I > > got the same error at boot. > > I wanted to list the partitions that grub recognizes : I opened a > > grub shell, and used the command-line completion : > > grub> root (hd0,<TAB> > > Possible partitions are: > > Partition num: 0, Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 > > Partition num: 1, Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x82 > > Partition num: 2, Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 > > Partition num: 4, Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 > > Partition num: 5, Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 > > Partition num: 6, Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 > > You don't have (hd0,8) clearly. Try (hd0,6) instead. That's it. > > Okuji > > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-grub mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
