Re: Filesystem type unknown...Debian

[Goran Koruga]

Hi,

> Some ?'s
> Without installing grub onto my harddrive's MBR I should be able to use
> the grub floppy to boot the 3 OS's on the hard drive?

Yes.

> Is grub capable of booting an OS in the extended partition?

Yes.

> Are the expected/found contradictions that sfdisk returns of
> importance to grubs proper operation? Are they involved with this?

Not sure, but you can force GRUB to always use LBA. See manual for more
info (in particular, for setup command).

> I see that dumpe2fs for hde9 has:
>       Filesystem features:      filetype sparse_super
> but for hde11
>       Filesystem features:     (none)
> is this going to be an issue?

It shouldn't as I have the same options listed and GRUB works fine.

> Barring getting grub to directly mount the hde9(grub hd0,4)
> might installing lilo into hde2 and then using grub to point at that
> be a workable alternative? How to do it?

What is on (hd0,4) ? I don't see a file system type in your fdisk
output... It's (hd0,8) as far as I can tell. I can't quite comprehend how
/dev/hde4 suddenly becomes (hd0,4) in GRUB. /dev/hde5 should be (hd0,4)
if I understand things correctly. Then again, I don't know anything about
BSD and its slices. Perhaps a problem is with GRUB's handling of that.
You better read documentation.

Cheers,
Goran

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