Re: yet more newbie questions

[kreuter]

On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 05:28:39PM -0800, Kenneth Stailey wrote:
> What am I doing wrong?
> 
> GRUB says that it can't find /boot/gnumach.gz but it's there.
<snip>
>
> # fdisk -l
> Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1245 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
> 
>    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1   *         1       125    999904+  83  Linux
> Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary:
>      phys=(1023, 15, 63) should be (1023, 254, 63)
> /dev/hda2           125       249    999936   63  GNU HURD or SysV
> Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary:
>      phys=(1023, 15, 63) should be (1023, 254, 63)
> /dev/hda3           249       312    499968   82  Linux swap
> Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary:
>      phys=(1023, 15, 63) should be (1023, 254, 63)
> /dev/hda4           312      1246   7506576    5  Extended
> Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary:
>      phys=(1023, 15, 63) should be (1023, 254, 63)
> /dev/hda5           312       436    999904+  63  GNU HURD or SysV
> /dev/hda6           436      1246   6506608+  83  Linux

  Here's your trouble: the Hurd doesn't use partition id 63; the
authors of <c|s|>fdisk misidentified this as id 'Hurd'.  Change its
type to 83 (identified as Linux).  Probably Grub won't look at these
partitions, since Grub uses partition id numbers as indicators of the
filesystem on the disk.

  That this partition id is not used by the Hurd is documented in a
few places, I think.


Hope that helps
Richard
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