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Hi, |
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I am attempting to move my /boot partition on a specific machine to |
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make way for a Windows XP dual boot. This machine is the only one with |
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a graphics adapter that meets the requirements of my son's new game. |
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and right now the machine is no longer booting...... Bummer.... |
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OK, so I used to have |
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/dev/sda1 /boot |
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/dev/sda2 swap |
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/dev/sda3 / |
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and then some higher partitions, and a bunch of unused disk space. To |
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get ready to add Windows I created two new partitions: |
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/dev/sda9 /boot |
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/dev/sda10 swap |
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First I added the new swap to fstab, rebooted and made sure it was |
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picked up correctly. I then copied everything in the old boot |
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/dev/sda1 to the new boot /dev/sda9 and modified the grub.conf file on |
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the new boot partition to ensure it was getting called with new names |
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for the boot options after I rebooted. I also attempted to change the |
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boot options themselves to point at the new boot partition. The old |
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grub.conf and new grub.conf file examples are shown: |
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OLD: |
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title 2.6.16-gentoo-r2 |
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root (hd0,0) |
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kernel (hd0,0)/boot/bzImage-2.6.16-gentoo-r2 root=/dev/sda3 |
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NEW: |
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title New Layot 2.6.16-gentoo-r2 |
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root (hd0,8) |
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kernel (hd0,8)/boot/bzImage-2.6.16-gentoo-r2 root=/dev/sda3 |
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When this was complete I ran grub using the commands |
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grub |
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root (hd0,8) |
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setup (hd0) |
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quit |
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My understand of the above is that the root (hd0,8) says place the |
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second part of grub on /dev/sda9 (drive 0, partition 8) while the |
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second says place the first part of grub in the MRB. |
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I then rebooted: |
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1) There is a long delay. I then get a message about the kernel file |
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not being found. Grub drops me into the grub choice screen which is |
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messed up text. |
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2) I do see the 'New Layout' names so it does seem to be finding |
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/dev/sda9 with the new text |
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3) None of the options work. |
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I've now rebooted using the Gentoo 2006.0 install CD. The kernels |
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are on /dev/sda9 so it seems grub should be able to find them but it |
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isn't. |
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Can anyone suggest what I'm missing here? |
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thanks, |
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Mark |
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