On Mon, 3 Apr 2006, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > Hmm --- did you create a manual partition layout, or did you just use > the default one provided by the installer? It was a standard layout, although I did select minimal packages (shouldn't affect it, I hope). > If it's a manual layout, then the problem may be that you (or the > installer) didn't set the "active" flag on the partition containing the > kernel images. pygrub looks for that to know which partition to try > booting from. # fdisk -l xt4-disk last_lba(): I don't know how to handle files with mode 81ed You must set cylinders. You can do this from the extra functions menu. Disk xt4-disk: 0 MB, 0 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 0 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System xt4-disk1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux xt4-disk2 14 261 1992060 8e Linux LVM # losetup -o 32256 /dev/loop0 xt4-disk # fsck.ext3 -v /dev/loop0 e2fsck 1.38 (30-Jun-2005) /boot: clean, 32/26104 files, 12598/104388 blocks Look ok? - James -- James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>