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bug #13079: stage2 hangs the PC with primary partitions defined after extended partitions

Submitter:  None
Submitted:  Fri 13 May 2005 07:45:26 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Disk & Partition Severity:  Major
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Software Error
Status:  None Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  None Originator Name:  Manfredo Hopp
Originator Email:  -email is unavailable- Open/Closed:  Closed
Release:  None Release:  0.95
Reproducibility:  Every Time Planned Release:  None

Sat 15 Dec 2007 05:09:24 PM UTC, comment #2: 

We've moved to GRUB 2 as a development platform. Please can you check if this bug still applies there, and if it does, reopen it?

Thanks

Robert Millan <robertmh>
Group administrator
Fri 23 Jun 2006 12:59:27 AM UTC, comment #1: 

I ran into the same problem today when moving around my root filesystem to another partition. I ended up with a partition table containing
hda1 windows
hda5 data
hda3 swap
hda2 linux

Setting up grub in the MBR gave me no problems, but when I rebooted it stopped after the messages "Loading Stage 1.5" and "Grub loading, please wait".

deleting the extended partition, creating a new primary directly after hda1 and moving my linux root filesystem there the trouble went away.

It has been pointed out to me that having primary partitions located after an extended one might not be a valid partition scheme. I don't know about that, but some kind of test and warning would be nice if that is really the fact.

Michael Weyershäuser <thedude0001>
Fri 13 May 2005 07:45:26 PM UTC, original submission:  

Problem description:
==============
The installation (trough anaconda) of fedora core3 Distribution Iso Dvd produced a grub stage2 hang on the Pc, with the following disk configuration reported by Disk Druid on installation panel:

PC disk configuration
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Disk 1 (SAMSUNG SV2044D)
====
/dev /hda
/dev/hda1 vfat 1   64
/dev/hda2 65 1334
/dev/hda5 vfat 65 1212
/dev/hda6 vfat 1213 1334
/dev/hda3 ntfs 1335 1844
/dev/hda4 ext3 1845 2481 <------Fedora core 3 installed here

Description of disk configuration: there are three Primary partitions (hda1,hda3,hda4) and one extended partition (hda5,hda6). Partitions hda3,hda4 defined AFTER extende partition.
Primary and extended partitions defined under W98 with FDISK and the other ppartions defined under XP.

Disk 2 (Maxtor 92041U4)
====
dev/hdc
dev/hdc1 vfat 1 1785
dev/hdc2 swap 1786 1912
free space 1913 2482

Problem work around
===============
When installing Linux on the second disk in the free space available, it works. It works also, in defining on Disk1 (the disk that fails with the above configuration) a primary partition and an extended partition with all logical disks inside this extended partition (vg when no primary partitions are defined after the extended partition).

For more info contact me at -email is unavailable-
Manfredo Hopp

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