On Sunday 30 April 2006 16:01, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, > I am attempting to move my /boot partition on a specific machine to > make way for a Windows XP dual boot. This machine is the only one with > a graphics adapter that meets the requirements of my son's new game. > > and right now the machine is no longer booting...... Bummer.... > > OK, so I used to have > > /dev/sda1 /boot > /dev/sda2 swap > /dev/sda3 / > > and then some higher partitions, and a bunch of unused disk space. To > get ready to add Windows I created two new partitions: > > /dev/sda9 /boot > /dev/sda10 swap > > First I added the new swap to fstab, rebooted and made sure it was > picked up correctly. I then copied everything in the old boot > /dev/sda1 to the new boot /dev/sda9 and modified the grub.conf file on > the new boot partition to ensure it was getting called with new names > for the boot options after I rebooted. I also attempted to change the > boot options themselves to point at the new boot partition. The old > grub.conf and new grub.conf file examples are shown: > > OLD: > title 2.6.16-gentoo-r2 > root (hd0,0) > kernel (hd0,0)/boot/bzImage-2.6.16-gentoo-r2 root=/dev/sda3 > > NEW: > > title New Layot 2.6.16-gentoo-r2 > root (hd0,8) > kernel (hd0,8)/boot/bzImage-2.6.16-gentoo-r2 root=/dev/sda3 > > When this was complete I ran grub using the commands > > grub > root (hd0,8) > setup (hd0) > quit > > My understand of the above is that the root (hd0,8) says place the > second part of grub on /dev/sda9 (drive 0, partition 8) while the > second says place the first part of grub in the MRB. > > I then rebooted: > > 1) There is a long delay. I then get a message about the kernel file > not being found. Grub drops me into the grub choice screen which is > messed up text. > > 2) I do see the 'New Layout' names so it does seem to be finding > /dev/sda9 with the new text > > 3) None of the options work. > > I've now rebooted using the Gentoo 2006.0 install CD. The kernels > are on /dev/sda9 so it seems grub should be able to find them but it > isn't. > > Can anyone suggest what I'm missing here? > > thanks, > Mark at the grub menu, can you get to the grub command line and do "find /boot/grub/grub.conf"? what drives/partitions does it show that being on?
if you set this up right, it should find it on both. also, remember in fdisk to set the /dev/sda9 partion's boot flag. -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
