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[Fábio Mierlo]

I remember in the 012 days that "modprobe sd_mod" create devices
in /dev/sd* but do not create entries in /proc/partitions.

On 1/8/07, Lucas C. Villa Real <lucasvr at gobolinux.org> wrote:
> On 1/8/07, molfar <molfar.ua at gmail.com> wrote:
> > However the question remains - why was menu.lst generated wrong? To be more
> > precise - why didn't grub write over mbr in the first place, and secondly -
> >  why didn't it generate proper menu.lst when I set it up manually? I mean -
> > now that I recall all the steps I made during installation I still fail to
> > see where my possible mistake was (it doesn't mean there wasn't any).
> > Still - if it helps you to pinpoint the issue in future - my hdd was
> > originally partitioned like this:
> > part1 (C:\, NTFS, primary active) (detected as sda1)
> > part2 (D:\, NTFS, primary) (detected as sda2)
> > ---extended---
> > part3 (Linux Swap) (detected as sda5)
> > part4 (Ext3, /) (detected as sda6)
> >
> > When setting it up manually from livecd I did:
> > grub> root (hd0,5)
> > grub> setup --prefix=/System/Kernel/Boot/grub (hd0)
> > grub> quit
> >
> > Then it happened. Checking the issue as you've advised revealed that
> > menu.lst contained wrong path to the kernel:
> > ...kernel (hd0,4)/System/Kernel/...
> > Booting manually from the command line and then editing menu.lst (to hd0,5)
> > saved the day.
>
> That probably is our fault.. could you please post the output for
> 'fdisk -l'? I'll try to create the same partition layout on a QEMU
> image to reproduce/fix the bug.
>
> > P.S. I'm still a noob in *nix universe, so if you consider this to be quite
> > a lame issue, please, accept my apologies.
>
> No problem, good to know that your problem is gone now.
>
> --
> Lucas
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