fat32 ok. ext3 not ok.
grub is on sda1 of internal SSD
new sandisk 2G sdcard is the internal reader at sdb.
puppeerc2 and lupu525 are in seperate directories on sdb1 which has an ext3 file system.
puppeerc2 is also on sdb4 with fat32 file system.
fat32 partition will boot with no flag, and with boot flag.
ext3 partition will not boot, everything i have tried gives as the first message to appear "Error 2: Bad file or directory type" for both puppeeerc2 and lupu525.
what boot flag needs to be set in gparted to get ext3 partition to boot? or is it something else that i am failing to do or notice.
i want to have all ext3 partitions and erase the fat32 partition.
grub booting with
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title lupu525 on sdb1
root (hd1,0)
kernel /lupu525b1/vmlinuz phome=lupu525b1 psubdir=lupu525b1 pfix=fsck
initrd /lupu525b1/initrd.gz
title puppeeerc2 on sdb1
root (hd1,0)
kernel /puppeeerc2b1/vmlinuz phome=puppeeerc2b1 psubdir=puppeeerc2b1 pfix=fsck
initrd /puppeeerc2b1/initrd.gz
title puppeeerc2 on sdb4
root (hd1,3)
kernel /puppeeerc2b4/vmlinuz phome=puppeeerc2b4 psubdir=puppeeerc2b4 pfix=fsck
initrd /puppeeerc2b4/initrd.gz
I have copied the lupu525 files from the sdb1 ext3 partition back to sda2 which is an ext3 partition with boot flag on located on the SSD and they successfully boot from there so there is nothing wrong with the files on the sdb1 ext3 partition.