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<H1>[Mageia-discuss] partitioning bug</H1>
<B>blind Pete</B>
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<I>Fri Jul 13 14:29:19 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>andre999 wrote:
><i> andre999 a écrit :
</I>><i>
</I>><i> correction :
</I>>><i> It might be because you had your "extended" partition at the beginning
</I>>><i> of the disk, and MBR disk partitions are numbered with the "primary"
</I>>><i> partions 1-4 and "extended" 5+.
</I>
The Ubuntu installer thinks that there should be a reserved BIOS
boot area of at least 1 MB for Grub. Not that that should be
necessary if Grub is going into a root partition.
>><i> Gdisk would normally number in disk order, but I'm not sure because I
</I>>><i> have always numbered in disk order with the "extended" partition at
</I>>><i> the end of the disk. With gdisk it is easy to extend an
</I>><i> I meant "With gparted it is easy to extend an ...
</I>><i> (obviously not gdisk)
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OK
After conversion the mbr order is kept until you change it.
>><i> extended partition to the end of disk with gparted (using a live cd
</I>>><i> such as systemrescueCD).
</I>>><i> You can easily check what partition ordering is with gdisk. (From
</I>>><i> systemrescueCD if necessary.)
</I>>><i> In any case, both grub and grub2 can get confused sometimes when
</I>>><i> partition numbering changes.
</I>
That is one of the reasons that I like LABELs.
>><i> It is only necessary to go into rescue mode on boot (from any Mageia
</I>>><i> boot cd/dvd, or systemrescueCD), and invoke grub to find the
</I>>><i> designated boot partition.
</I>>><i> It gives you a grub prompt. grub has somewhat cryptic but useful help.
</I>>><i> (This may have changed under grub2, but I don't think so.)
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> Regards :)
</I>>><i>
</I>
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