On Sunday 08 April 2007 15:53:32 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > So long as you don't restart, just running 'fdisk' and resetting the > type should do the trick. The kernel won't recognize the change > immediately, but that's ok -- it will be written to disk (for better or > worse, this is exactly what grub's doing). So you should be able to > test this without having to restart.
In fact that didn't work at all well. At the time I was running fdisk it did appear to be doing as expected, but this morning when I came to start the system, grub's character set had been corrupted (or a pointer to it). I got just "GRUB " followed by half a line of graphics characters. So clearly, rather more than just the partition-type field is being overwritten. I had to boot a CD, delete then re-create /dev/hda1, chroot to the installed system and run grub again to reinstall itself, just as I had been doing. Before raising a bug report, I'm going to recompile the entire system with -O2 in place of the -Os that I have at the moment. I can't see how that could be causing this problem, but I want to be sure. -- Rgds Peter Humphrey Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93 -- [email protected] mailing list
