Both hdb3 and hdb5 start on the same track - so if you put anything on the start of hdb3 it could overwrite hdb5. Unless...
same track, but same sector? fdisk -lu Disque /dev/sda: 500.1 Go, 500107862016 octets 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 secteurs Units = secteurs of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0xb283ec8b Périphérique Amorce Début Fin Blocs Id Système /dev/sda1 63 104872319 52436128+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/sda2 * 104872320 976768064 435947872+ f W95 Etendu (LBA) /dev/sda5 104872383 109081349 2104483+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda6 109081413 151027064 20972826 83 Linux /dev/sda7 151027128 255899384 52436128+ 83 Linux /dev/sda8 255899448 976768064 360434308+ 83 Linux you see, boot is on extended, first swap sector (part5) is 104872383 when extended (part 2) begins on 104872320 If I understand well (no sure :-(), only stage 1 have to be in fixed position id est here on a sector, may be extended partition definition sector - -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 déc. 3 2008 stage1 stage 1 is less than one sector size. After that grub goes directly to stage 1.5 XF (-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9544 déc. 3 2008 xfs_stage1_5) the debian link I quoted (https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+source/grub/+bug/8058) seems to say the problem is to have the XFS file system write really the file to the disk during the grub install phase. -- http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.org http://news.opensuse.org/2009/04/13/people-of-opensuse-jean-daniel-dodin/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org