Bug#594158: Incorrectly nested partitions, help needed!

Svante Signell svante.signell at telia.com
Thu Sep 16 08:25:55 UTC 2010


Seem like the many times repeated message, see below:
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition
(hd1,msdos3,msdos1).

when installing a new kernel or a new version of grub means
that /dev/sda1 (windows rescue) and /dev/sda3 (linux root /) are somehow
overlapping? How to resolve this annoying problem? According to fdisk
the sda1 and sda3 partitions are not overlapping:
#> fdisk -l /dev/sda

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 20673 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd568d568

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1         501     3787528+  1b  Hidden W95 FAT32
/dev/sda2   *         502       15254   111532680    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3           15255       15512     1950480   83  Linux
/dev/sda4           15513       20673    39017160    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5           15513       15930     3160048+  83  Linux
/dev/sda6           15931       17320    10508368+  83  Linux
/dev/sda7           17321       20530    24267568+  83  Linux
/dev/sda8           20531       20673     1081048+  82  Linux swap /
Solaris

Output when upgrading the kernel:
Setting up linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 (2.6.32-22) ...
Running depmod.
Running update-initramfs.
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-686
Examining /etc/kernel/postinst.d.
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools
2.6.32-5-686 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-686
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/pm-utils
2.6.32-5-686 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-686
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-update-grub
2.6.32-5-686 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-686
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition
(hd1,msdos3,msdos1).
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition
(hd1,msdos3,msdos1).
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition
(hd1,msdos3,msdos1).
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition
(hd1,msdos3,msdos1).
Generating grub.cfg ...
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition
(hd1,msdos3,msdos1).
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition
(hd1,msdos3,msdos1).
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition
(hd1,msdos3,msdos1).
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition
(hd1,msdos3,msdos1).
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition
(hd1,msdos3,msdos1).
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition
(hd1,msdos3,msdos1).
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition
(hd1,msdos3,msdos1).
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition
(hd1,msdos3,msdos1).
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition
(hd1,msdos3,msdos1).
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition
(hd1,msdos3,msdos1).
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition
(hd1,msdos3,msdos1).
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition
(hd1,msdos3,msdos1).
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition
(hd1,msdos3,msdos1).
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition
(hd1,msdos3,msdos1).
Found background image: moreblue-orbit-grub.png
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition
(hd1,msdos3,msdos1).
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition
(hd1,msdos3,msdos1).
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition
(hd1,msdos3,msdos1).
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition
(hd1,msdos3,msdos1).
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition
(hd1,msdos3,msdos1).
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition
(hd1,msdos3,msdos1).
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition
(hd1,msdos3,msdos1).
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition
(hd1,msdos3,msdos1).
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition
(hd1,msdos3,msdos1).
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition
(hd1,msdos3,msdos1).
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition
(hd1,msdos3,msdos1).
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition
(hd1,msdos3,msdos1).
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-686
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-686
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition
(hd1,msdos3,msdos1).
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition
(hd1,msdos3,msdos1).
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition
(hd1,msdos3,msdos1).
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition
(hd1,msdos3,msdos1).
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition
(hd1,msdos3,msdos1).
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition
(hd1,msdos3,msdos1).
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition
(hd1,msdos3,msdos1).
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition
(hd1,msdos3,msdos1).
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-3-686
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-3-686
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-1-686
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-1-686
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition
(hd1,msdos3,msdos1).
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition
(hd1,msdos3,msdos1).
Found Windows NT/2000/XP on /dev/sda1
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition
(hd1,msdos3,msdos1).
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition
(hd1,msdos3,msdos1).
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition
(hd1,msdos3,msdos1).
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition
(hd1,msdos3,msdos1).
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition
(hd1,msdos3,msdos1).
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition
(hd1,msdos3,msdos1).
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition
(hd1,msdos3,msdos1).
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition
(hd1,msdos3,msdos1).
Found Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition on /dev/sda2
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition
(hd1,msdos3,msdos1).
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition
(hd1,msdos3,msdos1).
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition
(hd1,msdos3,msdos1).
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition
(hd1,msdos3,msdos1).
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition
(hd1,msdos3,msdos1).
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition
(hd1,msdos3,msdos1).
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition
(hd1,msdos3,msdos1).
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition
(hd1,msdos3,msdos1).
done







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