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    SR29 and Grub installation (Linux)

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by xelahome, Apr 30, 2009.

  1. xelahome

    xelahome Newbie

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    Hi there,

    I am installing Gentoo distribution to my Laptop and I have already Vista Business installed by default. I modified correctly disk partitionning and I kept the recovery partition as is. Now, I would like now to install Grub to be able to boot on Vista or Linux.

    The problem is that, at grub prompt, when I try to do :
    "root (hd0,0)", I get "Filesystem type unkown, partition type 0x27" error message

    I am not really sure what I may do. Do I need to change hd0 partition type to "fake" a known type partition for Grub ? In that case, will the recovery partition still work if needed ?

    Thank you

    Alex
     
    xelahome, Apr 30, 2009
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  2. xelahome

    xelahome Newbie

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    I found : my /boot partition was not the first partition on the disk.
    I used "root (hd0,4) and everything worked fine ! :)
     
    xelahome, Apr 30, 2009
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  3. coolguy

    coolguy Notebook Prophet

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    In sony's the first partition is the recovery partition.
     
    coolguy, Apr 30, 2009
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