Re: Improperly nested partitions, help needed!

[Grégoire Sutre]

On 09/21/2010 16:54, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> > What does improperly nested mean: overlapping, or something else?
> >
> > How to resolve this problem? According to fdisk the sda1 and sda3 partitions 
> > are _not_ overlapping:
> > Additionally, does the same warning have to be repeated so many times for every 
> > kernel entry???
>
> It did not say they overlapped.  It said it found a partition table
> inside sda3 which is improper given it is not an extended partition
> (sda4 is).

I'm pretty sure that the warning message ``improperly nested'' really
is about partition nesting as discussed e.g. in [1].  It's not about
extended partitions.


But I agree that the problem at hand may come from this:

> If so, then there is a chance that the first sector of sda3 contains
> the old extended partition table, and grub probe might be detecting that.


Grégoire

[1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2010-01/msg00320.html