no boot XP after FC4 (REPHRASING OF THE QUESTION)] (More)

[John Wirt]

Rick,

Is this a "bad" configuration of Linux? It's the way Dell did it. Should 
I change this? 2.5gb seems like a lot for a boot partition. What's in it?

I asked Dell what the FAT32 partition is and they said,

  "The FAT-32 shows where the extended logical drive is at.  All the drives after are logical drives."


Seems crazy to me.  I've created many an extended partition and none 
have required a corresponding FA-32 partition.

Thank you for all your assistance. Very helpful.

John Wirt

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>>The configuration of the second drive on my machine, where I am trying 
>>to reinstall Grub is:
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>>>MBR Entry 0____ Partition____ 16mb______  Dell Utility
>>>NO-NAME________ Partition____ 2565mb____  FAT-32
>>>MBR Entry 2____ Partition____ 102mb_____  Linux native
>>>MBR Entry 3____ Partition__ 32020mb_____  Extended
>>>UnNamed________ Volume_____ 30043mb_____   Linux native
>>>UnNamed________ Volume______ 1997mb_____   Linux Swap/Solaris
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>> From this list, I assume that the Linux /boot directory is  MBR entry 3 
>>and the /root partition is the first "UnNamed" partition.
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>Sorta.  Assuming you set up a "/boot" of about 102MB, then
>yes, /dev/sdb3 (or grub "(hd1,2)") is /boot.  It appears you put
>everything else in a single 30G partition.  In that case, then the
>root of the filesystem is /dev/sda5 (grub "(hd1,4)") and it's called
>"/".
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