Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 384141
hide/unhide commands stopped working
Last modified: 2009-01-09 00:13:08 EST
Description of problem: I have a few widows installations together with fedora 8 and I use grub to boot all of them. To separate multiple windows installations I use hide and unhide command. After installation of Fedora 8 I am unable to boot any of Windows partitions. This is due to grub complaining after the first hide or unhide: Error 22: No such partition I've checked with fdisk and all my partitions are in place. Removal of all hide/unhide commands from boot menu also helps. The same error is also reported by command line grub. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): grub-0.97-19.x86_64 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create a partion of type 6 (FAT) or 7 (NTFS) 2. load grub (be it command line or actual bootloader 3. try to hide/unhide that partition. Copy-paste from konsole: gklab-59-001:~# fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 73.4 GB, 73407488000 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 8924 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0xe661e661 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 38 305203+ 6 FAT16 /dev/sda2 39 8924 71376795 8e Linux LVM gklab-59-001:~# cat /boot/grub/device.map # this device map was generated by anaconda (hd0) /dev/sda gklab-59-001:~# grub Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time. GNU GRUB version 0.97 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory) [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible completions of a device/filename.] grub> hide (hd0,0) hide (hd0,0) Error 22: No such partition grub> unhide (hd0,0) unhide (hd0,0) Error 22: No such partition grub> # Suprise, suprise # Suprise, suprise Error 27: Unrecognized command grub> rootnoverify (hd0,0) rootnoverify (hd0,0) grub> quit quit Please see that rootnoverify works! Actual results: Cannot use hide/unhide commands. Expected results: Can use hide/unhide commands.
This is to confirm the report concerning hide and unhide: always return "no such partition".
Is there any chance for a fix for this bug?
This was broken for me in Fedora 8, but works fine in Fedora 9. Hide/unhide commands work in grub.conf and at the grub console.
Oops, I just realized this bug was for x86_64. I only tested i386.
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