Re: [Bug-grub] cannot boot win2000 from high cylinders

[Jason Thomas]

from what I have experienced before grub is unable to boot windows from
an extended partition, this is because it requires the partition to be
the active partition which is not possible with extended partitions and
this is part of the specifications for partitions. or something like
that.

either change back to lilo, which should not be difficult or repartition
your drive so that windows is not on an extended partition.

On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 02:19:40PM +0200, Sergei Vorobyov wrote:
> Finally, my disks are partitioned as follows (as seen by fdisk):
> 
> Disk /dev/sda: 64 heads, 32 sectors, 8748 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes
> 
>    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1             1       259    265200   83  Linux
> /dev/sda4           260      8748   8692736    5  Extended
> /dev/sda5           260      1308   1074160    e  Win95 FAT16 (LBA)
> /dev/sda6          1309      2869   1598448    e  Win95 FAT16 (LBA)
> /dev/sda7   *      6557      8748   2244592    c  Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
> /dev/sda8          2870      6556   3775472   83  Linux
> 
> Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 827 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes
> 
>    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1   *         1       251    505984+  83  Linux
> /dev/hda2           252       827   1161216    5  Extended
> /dev/hda5           252       305    108832+  82  Linux swap
> /dev/hda6           306       827   1052320+  83  Linux

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