On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 16:10:02 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] migrating disks (from mounts to disklabels:
>On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 13:26:03 +0000, David W Noon wrote: > >> Unless you have the mother of all initrd's or initramfs's, you cannot >> have /boot on a logical partition -- only a primary partition, as >> BIOS interrupts will only access raw drives and primary partitions. [snip] > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System >/dev/sda1 124 1250263039 625131458 5 Extended [snip] >Really? Please don't tell this computer, it's been booting from a >logical partition for more than six years. You must have a newer BIOS than I have on my 2004-vintage box, offering non-standard BIOS facilities. The ISA-standard BIOS only offers bootstrap from primary partitions. Your extended partition begins at sector 124. Any idea what is occupying sectors 0 - 123 ? -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* [email protected] (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
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