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- Saturday, January 19th, 2008 at 10:30:04pm UTC
- [email protected]:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/hda
- omitting empty partition (5)
- Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
- 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
- Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
- Disk identifier: 0xba8cba8c
- Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
- /dev/hda1 * 1 2433 19543041 7 HPFS/NTFS
- /dev/hda2 2434 4865 19535040 5 Extended
- /dev/hda3 4670 4865 1574370 82 Linux swap / Solaris
- /dev/hda5 2434 3738 10482349+ 83 Linux
- /dev/hda6 3739 4669 7478226 83 Linux
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- grub> root (hd0,5)
- grub> setup (hd0)
- Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes
- Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes
- Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes
- Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"... 15 sectors are embedded.
- succeeded
- Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+15 p (hd0,5)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/menu.lst"... failed
- Error 12: Invalid device requested
- grub>
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- The "Error 12" bit stops things working as they should.
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