[SLUG] lost link between /boot and /
hi slugs, i'm mucking around with converting from NT to linux desktop. i've been mucking around with partitions. i don't know the technical terms for the following but here goes... i've got two partitions for linux. a /boot and another partition called / for everything else. there are a few other partitions *between* these partitions on the hard disk. it's a 20Gb hard disk and that's why /boot is down near the start of the disk for 1024 cyl limitation and / is at the end of the disk. anyway deleting a partition between /boot and / has caused linux to have a kernal panic and error saying it can't find a console. try passing init= to the kernel. how do i re-link the /boot partition to the / partition? or how do you get the /boot partition to find the / partition? i've edited the lilo.conf but no go as lilo.conf is in the / partition which *i guess* can't be found by the kernel from /boot. i hope this makes sense! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group Mailing List - http://www.slug.org.au To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the text
Re: [SLUG] lost link between /boot and /
On Tue, 30 May 2000, Ben Donohue wrote:
i've got two partitions for linux. a /boot and another partition called
/ for everything else.
there are a few other partitions *between* these partitions on the hard
disk. it's a 20Gb hard disk and that's why /boot is down near the start
of the disk for 1024 cyl limitation and / is at the end of the disk.
anyway deleting a partition between /boot and / has caused linux to have
a kernal panic and error saying it can't find a console. try passing
init= to the kernel.
how do i re-link the /boot partition to the / partition? or how do you
get the /boot partition to find the / partition?
i've edited the lilo.conf but no go as lilo.conf is in the / partition
which *i guess* can't be found by the kernel from /boot.
i hope this makes sense!
By deleting the partition in the middle, you have changed the numbers of
the existing partitions - for example, in a situation like this
/dev/hda1 - boot
/dev/hda2 - extended
/dev/hda5 - Windows
/dev/hda6 - Linux
removing /dev/hda5 will turn /dev/hda6 into /dev/hda5.
What you need to do is put the original partition back - doesn't have to
be as big, just so as it occupies the number - then boot to Linux, modify
/etc/lilo.conf to point to a different root {in this case, change the line
which looks like root=/dev/hda6 to read root=/dev/hda5}, re-run lilo to
save the MBR, then delete your partition again and away you go.
Of course, if you put anything back in that position, you'll have the
opposite problem - the partition numbers will move UP, and then you're
just as stuffed.
I'd grab partition magic and move the Linux partition to the start of the
available space, so it remains /dev/hda5 forever {or until you delete it},
then use Tomsrootboot or similar to fix lilo - but that's another story.
DaZZa
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Re: [SLUG] lost link between /boot and /
On Tue, 30 May 2000, Ben Donohue generated: how do i re-link the /boot partition to the / partition? or how do you get the /boot partition to find the / partition? i've edited the lilo.conf but no go as lilo.conf is in the / partition which *i guess* can't be found by the kernel from /boot. i hope this makes sense! Let me clarify: you have your /boot in, say, /dev/hda2, which is located below 1024 cyls. Before you deleted the partition, it was called (in linux, anyway) /dev/hda5, and your root partition was on /dev/hda7. What I think has happened is that in deleting the partitions, they become renumbered, so what was once your root partition on /dev/hda7, is now called /dev/hda6 You might have to boot off a rescue floppy and make the necessary changes to /etc/fstab, and possibly making lilo aware of where the root partition is located now, too. -- jamesw Heuristics are bug ridden by definition. If they didn't have bugs, then they'd be algorithms. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group Mailing List - http://www.slug.org.au To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the text
