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On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 16:10:02 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re: |
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[gentoo-user] migrating disks (from mounts to disklabels: |
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>On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 13:26:03 +0000, David W Noon wrote: |
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>> Unless you have the mother of all initrd's or initramfs's, you cannot |
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>> have /boot on a logical partition -- only a primary partition, as |
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>> BIOS interrupts will only access raw drives and primary partitions. |
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[snip] |
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> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System |
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>/dev/sda1 124 1250263039 625131458 5 Extended |
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[snip] |
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>Really? Please don't tell this computer, it's been booting from a |
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>logical partition for more than six years. |
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You must have a newer BIOS than I have on my 2004-vintage box, offering |
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non-standard BIOS facilities. The ISA-standard BIOS only offers |
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bootstrap from primary partitions. |
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Your extended partition begins at sector 124. Any idea what is |
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occupying sectors 0 - 123 ? |
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Regards, |
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Dave [RLU #314465] |
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dwnoon@××××××××.com (David W Noon) |
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