so try (hd0) On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 09:30:11PM +0100, DervishD wrote: > Hi all :) > > I have no partitions on my disks, I use the full device (/dev/hda > and /dev/hdb) as my filesystem under Linux with no problems. The MBR > of each disk have the IBM partition label signature (that 0x55AA) and > Linux identifies them as IBM empty partition tables. > > Isolinux and LILO have no problems with this, but grub seems to > have. When I run 'grub' I have: > > grub> find (hd0,0)<TAB> > Error 21: Selected disk does not exist. > > The same command under an identical system, same hardware, even > hard disks but the disks have one partition, works without problems, > so I think that is the empty partition table which is causing > problems. > > Since my setup is quite uncommon I don't expect GRUB to change > for supporting it ;)) but I would like to know a solution. Right now > I cannot empty the disks in order to create partitions on them and > restore contents afterwards, so my only resource is tweaking the > partition table. Could I create a fake partition starting in sector > 0 and ending in the last sector so the layout matches the current > layout or that won't work? I mean, the disk is currently: > > 0 X > ?------------------? > | MBR | Filesystem | > ?------------------? > > well, the MBR is currently the first sector of the ext3 > filesystem. What I want is to add a partition starting at 0 and > ending at sector 'X' in MBR. Will it work? > > Thanks a lot in advance :) > > Ra?l N??ez de Arenas Coronado > > -- > Linux Registered User 88736 > http://www.dervishd.net & http://www.pleyades.net/ > It's my PC and I'll cry if I want to... > > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-grub mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
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