[CS-FSLUG] Part 2 Ubuntu, XP and Fedora

[Tim Young]

The "partitions are not in disk order" is a dangerous one to mess with, 
but also should not cause you any problems.  The only real place where 
it might affect you is if you use something like partition magic and 
want to merge two partitions back together.  You may find that the two 
partitions, while listed together, cannot be merged because there is a 
partition separating them.

You mention that you have the boot problem solved?  If not, could you 
elaborate on the symptoms?  Does the kernel load, or does it instantly 
give you an error when you try to load?

    - Tim Young

HildingE wrote:
> In fact, once more reading grub.conf I noticed what went wrong, so for 
> some days it seems to be functioning all of it. But with Fedora You will 
> never know. I read about some bug in the first version. Does anyone know 
> something about it?
>
> This message that the partition table entries are not in disk order, I 
> find too dangerous to do anything about it!!
>
> /Hilding in Sweden
>
> Hilding Egestål skrev:
>   
>> fdisk - l has given this:
>>
>> Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
>> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
>> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>>
>>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>> /dev/sda1           18183       19457    10241437+  83  Linux
>> /dev/sda2   *        5434       18182   102403035    7  HPFS/NTFS
>> /dev/sda3              54        5248    41728837+  83  Linux
>> /dev/sda4            5249        5433     1486012+   5  Extended
>> /dev/sda5            5249        5433     1485981   82  Linux swap / Solaris
>>
>> Partition table entries are not in disk order
>>
>> Disk /dev/sdb: 1008 MB, 1008730112 bytes
>> 64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 962 cylinders
>> Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes
>>
>>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>> /dev/sdb1               1         962      984816    6  FAT16
>> Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
>>      phys=(774, 63, 32) logical=(961, 47, 32)
>>
>>
>> GRUB.conf
>> default=1
>> timeout=10
>> splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
>> hiddenmenu
>> title Fedora Core (2.6.19-1.2895.fc6)
>>     root (hd0,0)
>>     kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.19-1.2895.fc6 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
>>     initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.19-1.2895.fc6.img
>>
>> title WindowsHomeXP
>>     rootnoverify (hd0,1)
>>     chainloader +1
>>
>> title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.15-27-386
>>     kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-27-386
>>     root (hd0,2)
>>     initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-27-386   
>>     savedefault
>>     boot   
>>     chainloader +1
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