Yes, I should have posted to help-grub, but I am not subscribed to that list, only grub-devel.
Can somebody please help me with the following problem: (I have asked on Debian lists, and also filed a bug #594158 but no response so far). When installing a new kernel or a new version of grub I get a warning that /dev/sda1 (windows rescue) and /dev/sda3 (linux root /) are improperly nested: /usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition (hd1,msdos3,msdos1). What does improperly nested mean: overlapping, or something else? How to resolve this problem? According to fdisk the sda1 and sda3 partitions are _not_ overlapping: Additionally, does the same warning have to be repeated so many times for every kernel entry??? #> 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). (repeated 17 times) Found background image: moreblue-orbit-grub.png /usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition (hd1,msdos3,msdos1). (repeated 12 times) 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). (repeated 8 times) 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). (repeated twice) Found Windows NT/2000/XP on /dev/sda1 /usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition (hd1,msdos3,msdos1). (repeated 8 times) Found Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition on /dev/sda2 /usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: Discarding improperly nested partition (hd1,msdos3,msdos1). (repeated 8 times) done _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
