Re: [8.1]Failiure o boot after install (revisited)

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On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 06:11:18AM +0200, Rikard Johnels wrote:
> 3 partitions:
> #       start       end      size     fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
>   a:        3        13        11       ext2                     =20
>   b:       14       144       131       swap                     =20
>   c:      145      1022       878       HPFS          =20
>                                         ^^^^ changed to all=20
> conceivable settings

This table is incorrect.  The third (c) partition should be the "whole disk"
partition.  It has to span the whole disk and should not be used to place a
filesystem on it at all.

> The partiton table is fine. As i can boot the installed system from CD.

The fact that something works does not necessarily mean that everything is
correct.

> But aboot complains about the third partition
> No matter what i set it to it doesn't know how to boot it. :(
>=20
> What is the right ID for the "c" (/ partition) if i use reiserfs?

You should place the kernel on a non-reiserfs /boot partition.  If this was
the case, the id of the reiserfs partition does no longer matter because Li=
nux
does not care about the id.

Robert

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Robert Schiele			Tel.: +49-621-181-2517
Dipl.-Wirtsch.informatiker	mailto:[email protected]

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