Bug#356863: further testing with new boot below 8GB and 0.97-20ubuntu5

Kurt J. Bosch kjb-temp-2006 at gmx.de
Sun Mar 25 19:03:21 CET 2007


Just to make it clear: I used no boot partition, that means grub-stuff 
and kernels where on /dev/hda7 which is my root partition currently.

After I changed some of my other partitions, I prepared a 150 MB boot 
partition on /dev/hda3 today, made my system use it and reinstalled grub 
from feisty which is 0.97-20ubuntu5 by now (doing grub-install /dev/hda 
too). So boot is now entirely below 8GB as suggested by 
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Stage2-errors.html

Will see if it happens again ...

Appending my new partition table:

sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1         192     1542208+   b  W95 FAT32
/dev/hda2             193         714     4192965    b  W95 FAT32
/dev/hda3             715         733      152617+  83  Linux
/dev/hda4             734        9729    72260370    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5             976        1913     7534422   83  Linux
/dev/hda6            1914        2015      819283+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda7            2016        3008     7976209+  83  Linux
/dev/hda8            3009        8575    44716896   83  Linux
/dev/hda9            8576        9729     9269473+  83  Linux
/dev/hda10            734         975     1943802    b  W95 FAT32

Partition table entries are not in disk order





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