Re: [gentoo-user] Disk migration boot loader not found

[Florian Philipp]

Am 26.08.2012 17:58, schrieb Mick:
> On Sunday 26 Aug 2012 15:32:23 Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote:
>> On 26.08.2012 14:32, Florian Philipp wrote:
>>> Am 25.08.2012 13:13, schrieb Florian Philipp:
>> <SNIP>
>>
>>>> At this point, my partition table looked like this:
>>>>
>>>> Number  Start   End     Size    Type      File system     Flags 1
>>>> 1049kB  316MB   315MB   primary   ntfs 2      316MB   750GB
>>>> 750GB   extended 5      317MB   424MB   107MB   logical   ext2
>>>> boot 6      425MB   22.4GB  22.0GB  logical   ext3 7      22.4GB
>>>> 28.9GB  6441MB  logical   linux-swap(v1) 8      28.9GB  750GB
>>>> 721GB   logical
>>
>> <SNIP>
>>
>>> Turns out, I was wrong in thinking the immediate problem was
>>> solved. In fact, the system just booted of the memory stick without
>>> me noticing. I've now finally solved by re-creating the boot
>>> partition without MiB-alignment, just good old cfdisk. So, the
>>> working partition scheme looks like this:
>>>
>>> Number  Start   End     Size    Type      File system     Flags 1
>>> 32.3kB  316MB   316MB   primary   ext2            boot 2      316MB
>>> 750GB   750GB   extended 5      317MB   424MB   107MB   logical
>>> ext2 6      425MB   22.4GB  22.0GB  logical   ext3 7      22.4GB
>>> 28.9GB  6441MB  logical   linux-swap(v1) 8      28.9GB  750GB
>>> 721GB   logical
>>>
>>> Is there an explanation for this?
>>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> if my eye-integrated diff doesn't deceive me the problem was, that
>> your old bootpartition was ntfs. Since grub doesn't support ntfs
>> that's an easy explanation.
>> Your boot partition is the first one on the drive, isn't it?
>
> Originally the boot partition was on /dev/sda5 which was partitioned as ext2.
>

Right.

> Was this legacy GRUB Florian?  (TBH I'm not sure that it would make a
> difference.  I can boot here fine from logical non-MiB aligned partitions with
> legacy GRUB.)

Right again.

Regards,
Florian Philipp