C. M. Reinher wrote: > This sounds more like a M$ DOS/Windows problem, than a Linux problem, but a > couple of questions come to mind: > > 1) What tool did you use to set up the partitions? If you used anything > other than a M$ DOS or Windows utility (eg. fdisk), that might be the cause > of your problem. > > 2) Have you tried restoring the master boot record with fdisk & booting DOS > natively, rather than through GRUB? What happens then? > >
The HD was partitioned with FDISK as provided with Novell DOS 7 (aka DR-DOS). The drive boots normally when connected as master, using its own bootloader. GRUB is not in the MBR of this drive; it is a slave to another drive, wherein GRUB is installed. I tried converting the three logical partitions to primary, using Partition Magic 6. This only resulted with the same number of superfluous partitions as before, but the sequencing was changed. I restored the partitions back to logical. Since the drive performs normally booting from its own DOS bootloader, and only goes haywire when booted from GRUB, I'd consider this a GRUB/Linux issue. -- Leon A. Goldstein Powered by Caldera Linux 2.4 System 5WV271 _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
