Partition Schizophrenia Booting DOS with GRUB

[Leon A. Goldstein]

C. M. Reinher wrote:

> This sounds more like a M$ DOS/Windows problem, than a Linux problem, but a
> couple of questions come to mind:
>
> 1) What tool did you use to set up the partitions?  If you used anything
> other than a M$ DOS or Windows utility (eg. fdisk), that might be the cause
> of your problem.
>
> 2) Have you tried restoring the master boot record with fdisk & booting DOS
> natively, rather than through GRUB?  What happens then?
>
>

The HD was partitioned with FDISK as provided with Novell DOS 7 (aka
DR-DOS).
The drive boots normally when connected as master, using its own
bootloader.
GRUB is not in the MBR of this drive; it is  a slave to another drive,
wherein GRUB is installed.

I tried converting the three logical partitions to primary, using
Partition Magic 6.  This only resulted with the same number of
superfluous partitions as before, but the sequencing was changed.  I
restored the partitions back to logical.

Since the drive performs normally booting from its own DOS bootloader,
and only goes haywire when booted from GRUB, I'd consider this a
GRUB/Linux issue.

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Leon A. Goldstein
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