Hi,
I'm having the same problem.
I can additionally say that I have GRUB installed at the concerned partition
start (and not disk start)
You provided a dd command to clean out first sector (dd if=/dev/zero
of=/dev/XXX bs=512 count=1).
Can you confirm that this won't destroy GRUB install and that I'll still be
able to boot !!!
PS: below are the results of tests I did to find any fat remnants.
Thanks,
Yannick
I have done a few checks to find any fat remnants, but have been unable to
find any.
I checked using fdisk and file. The results are displayed below.
FDISK OUPUT :
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/hda: 123.5 GB, 123522416640 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 15017 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 364 2923798+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 365 385 168682+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda3 386 15017 117531508+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda5 365 385 168651 82 Linux swap / Solaris
FILE OUTPUT:
# cat /dev/hda | file -
/dev/stdin: x86 boot sector, Microsoft Windows XP MBR, Serial 0x2f112f10;
partition 2: ID=0x5, starthead 0, startsector 5847660, 337365 sectors;
partition 3: ID=0x7, starthead 1, startsector 6185088, 235063017 sectors
# cat /dev/hda1 | file -
/dev/stdin: x86 boot sector; GRand Unified Bootloader, stage1 version 0x3, LBA
flag 0x1, 1st sector stage2 0x38504f, GRUB version 0.94, code offset 0x48,
sectors/cluster 4, reserved sectors 36, Media descriptor 0xf8, heads 255,
hidden sectors 63, sectors 6184962 (volumes > 32 MB) , physical drive 0x2,
reserved 0x2f, dos < 4.0 BootSector (0x0)
# cat /dev/hda2 | file -
/dev/stdin: x86 boot sector, extended partition table (last)\011
# cat /dev/hda3 | file -
/dev/stdin: x86 boot sector, code offset 0x52, OEM-ID "NTFS ",
sectors/cluster 8, reserved sectors 0, Media descriptor 0xf8, heads 255, hidden
sectors 6185088, dos < 4.0 BootSector (0x80)
# cat /dev/hda5 | file -
/dev/stdin: Linux/i386 swap file (new style) 1 (4K pages) size 42161 pages
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