* eModul <bts@bts.grml.org> [20071220 12:16]:

> By installing grml on a harddisk with an already existing vfat partition grml2hd
> realised the existence of the partition and installed the system after
> formatting it as ext3. But it didn't change the partition table, so there was no
> way to boot from the freshly installed grml system. I would expect grml2hd to
> change the partition id accordingly instead of leaving it as a fat partition in
> the partition table.
> Furthermore the bootable flag hasn't been set to the partition, so the installed
> grub in the partition could not be found during the booting process (lilo would
> have been found either).

Good catch, thx. Though I do not really like touching the disk and
setting the partition type "manually" - especially as grml2hd itself
does not provide any partitioning procedure. So I think this will
become a warning/error message instead. :)

What I don't understand right now is why the check:

 fdisk -l 2>/dev/null | grep $PARTITION | grep -qe 'Linux$' -qe 'Linux LVM$' -qe 'Linux raid autodetect$' && RC=0

seems to fail on your system. Can you please provide the output of
'fdisk -l' on your system?

regards,
-mika-.