Re: Grub won't boot to linux partion

From: Jesse Benton (jessebent_at_netscape.net)
Date: 04/27/04 

Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 02:16:15 -0400

Lenard,
        sfdisk came back with allot more usable info. Now how do I fix it?
Thanks for your help

Jesse

# /sbin/sfdisk -l -V /dev/hdc

Disk /dev/hdc: 4865 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

    Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/hdc1 * 0+ 3187 3188- 25607578+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hdc2 3188 4590 1403 11269597+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdc3 4591 4863 273 2192872+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hdc4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/hdc: OK

Lenard wrote:
  using '/sbin/fdisk -l /dev/hdc' without the quotes, that's the
> lowercase letter 'L' and not the number one in the command.
>
> You might want to try (instead of or in addition to fdisk);
>
> /sbin/sfdisk -l -V /dev/hdc ;again it's the lowercase letter 'L' here.
>
>

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