RE: limited visible partition list

[Robert Grasso]

you were right, (hd0,8) was just nonsense - thank you for your help. I have
never been comfortable with extended partitions, and grub's documentation -
and strange computations - just confused me.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden
> [mailto:address@hidden Behalf Of
> Yoshinori K. Okuji
> Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 1:23 PM
> To: Robert Grasso; address@hidden
> Subject: Re: limited visible partition list
>
>
> On Monday 22 December 2003 19:37, Robert Grasso wrote:
> > root (hd0,8):
> > Error 22: No such partition
> >
> > I tried to install grub in the MBR from RH 8.0 (grub v0.92), but I
> > got the same error at boot.
> > I wanted to list the partitions that grub recognizes : I opened a
> > grub shell, and used the command-line completion :
> > grub> root (hd0,<TAB>
> >  Possible partitions are:
> >    Partition num: 0,  Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
> >    Partition num: 1,  Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x82
> >    Partition num: 2,  Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
> >    Partition num: 4,  Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
> >    Partition num: 5,  Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
> >    Partition num: 6,  Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
>
> You don't have (hd0,8) clearly. Try (hd0,6) instead. That's it.
>
> Okuji
>
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