grub problems and extended root reiserfs.

[Cesar González Revilla]

Hello All,

I am running Sid Debian GNU/Linux system. And my partiton table is as follows;

#fdisk -l /dev/hda

Disk /dev/hda: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 59560 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *         1        27     13576+  83  Linux
/dev/hda2         30713     59560  14539392    5  Extended
/dev/hda3            28       319    147168   82  Linux swap
/dev/hda4           320     30712  15318072   83  Linux
/dev/hda5         30713     59560  14539360+  83  Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

I have one 30 Gb Disk (IBM ATA100), and my /etc/fstab file is like that :

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>                       
<dump>  <pass>
/dev/hda4       /               reiserfs        defaults,notail 0       0
/dev/hda5       /home       reiserfs        defaults,notail 0   1
/dev/hda3       none            swap    sw                      0       0
proc            /proc           proc    defaults                        0    0
/dev/fd0        /floppy         auto    defaults,user,noauto            0    0
/dev/cdrom      /cdrom          iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto         0    0
/dev/hda1       /boot   ext2    defaults                        0       2

When i installed the precompiled debian version of grub 0.90, everything 
seems go ok :

 #grub-install '(hd0)'
Installation finished. No error reported.
This is the contents of the device map /boot/grub/device.map.
Check if this is correct or not. If any of the lines is incorrect,
fix it and re-run the script `grub-install'.

(fd0)   /dev/fd0
(hd0)   /dev/hda

But when i boot the system grub hangs saying "GRUB" unlimited times.

¿Is it possible to boot a system with an extended root partiton over 1024 
cylinder with grub? 
¿What am i doing wrong?

Thanks in advance.
 
-- 
César González Revilla
Eureka Sistemas 
http://www.eureka-sistemas.com/
+34 (9)42 233937


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