On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 07:13:19AM +0400, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote:
> 
> When does it happen that fdisk shows a bootmenu entry but that entry
> does not show up in the bootloader menu while booting?

Probably when the disk layout doesn't match that which the mbr code expects.
(and possibly fdisk is confused as well...)

Can you send the output of
    fdisk -vvv wd0
and that of
    dd if=/dev/rwd0d skip=<start> count=1 | hexdump -C
for <start> being the start sector number of extended partition and
each of the 'link' partitions.

The latter should look something like:
00000000  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
*
00000190  00 00 00 00 6e 65 74 62  73 64 20 33 00 00 00 00  |....netbsd 3....|
000001a0  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
000001b0  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 e1 b5 00 01  |................|
000001c0  01 00 a9 fe bf 7d 3f 00  00 00 bf 64 9c 00 00 00  |.....}?....d....|
000001d0  81 7e 05 fe ff ff fe 64  9c 00 fe 64 9c 00 00 00  |.~.....d...d....|
000001e0  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
000001f0  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 55 aa  |..............U.|
00000200

	David

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David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk