> I THOUGHT I'd spotted the problem - then realised that the 'junk' sector
> should give a junk bootemenu name, rather than abort the scan.
>
> Although, quite possibly, adding a bootmenu name to the first extended
> partition (your swap ptn) might get things working.  You can delete
> it by changing it to <space><enter>.

I tried this. And it worked! :)) I knew it would work the moment I
added a name and fdisk said its going to update the MBR with the
mbr_ext code. So far it hadn't done that, and I found that strange.
After it worked, I deleted the bootmenu entry, and things still work.
Great! :)

So your hypothesis is that that the logical partition contained some
junk coz of which the scan was getting aborted? Geez. :( I had even
deleted that partition and tried -- but it didn't help. Giving it a
name finally did the trick.

Thanks again!
Rakhesh

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