[Bug 506828] Re: Problem booting grub2 from extended partition by third party bootmanager

[Thomas Runge]

** Summary changed:

- Problem booting grub2 from extended partition by third party bottmanager
+ Problem booting grub2 from extended partition by third party bootmanager

** Description changed:

  Hello,
  
  I have a system here as follows:
  
  /dev/sda1: Primary, NTFS (XP)
  /dev/sda2: Primary, NTFS (XP)
  /dev/sda3: Extended
  /dev/sda5: Logical, NTFS (data)
  /dev/sda6: Logical, FAT32 (recovery)
  /dev/sda7: Logical, Ext?
  /dev/sda8: Logical, Swap
  
- The operation systems are booted by the bootmanager of xfdisk (http://www.mecronome.de/xfdisk/index.php), which is a pretty which is pretty easy to configure.
+ The operation systems are booted by the bootmanager of xfdisk (http://www.mecronome.de/xfdisk/index.php), which is pretty easy to configure.
  I had an Ubuntu system on sda7 for years.
  
  Today, I tried to install 9.10 from scratch, installing grub to
  /dev/sda7 to be able to go on using xfdisk. Unfortunatly, booting Ubuntu
  was not possible; xfdisk reported a missing OS. Tried the installation
  several times using different media. It didn't work out.
  
  As a last try, I tried to install 9.04 and configured it the same way
  (grub on /dev/sda7). This installation was working as expected. I am now
  wondering if the non-working tries with 9.10 come from using grub 2
  instead of grub 1.
  
  Can anybody confirm or provide a way to install 9.10 in this config?
  
  Thanks a lot,
  Thomas

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Title:
  Problem booting grub2 from extended partition by third party
  bootmanager

Status in grub2 package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Hello,

  I have a system here as follows:

  /dev/sda1: Primary, NTFS (XP)
  /dev/sda2: Primary, NTFS (XP)
  /dev/sda3: Extended
  /dev/sda5: Logical, NTFS (data)
  /dev/sda6: Logical, FAT32 (recovery)
  /dev/sda7: Logical, Ext?
  /dev/sda8: Logical, Swap

  The operation systems are booted by the bootmanager of xfdisk (http://www.mecronome.de/xfdisk/index.php), which is pretty easy to configure.
  I had an Ubuntu system on sda7 for years.

  Today, I tried to install 9.10 from scratch, installing grub to
  /dev/sda7 to be able to go on using xfdisk. Unfortunatly, booting
  Ubuntu was not possible; xfdisk reported a missing OS. Tried the
  installation several times using different media. It didn't work out.

  As a last try, I tried to install 9.04 and configured it the same way
  (grub on /dev/sda7). This installation was working as expected. I am
  now wondering if the non-working tries with 9.10 come from using grub
  2 instead of grub 1.

  Can anybody confirm or provide a way to install 9.10 in this config?

  Thanks a lot,
  Thomas

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