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

[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.

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.)
-- 
Regards,
Mick