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
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