On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 01:42:32PM -0900, Ken Irving wrote: > On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 10:13:17PM +0100, Andreas Janssen wrote: > > wsa (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > Alvin Oga wrote: > > > > > >> /boot is NOT needed ... - /boot was needed in the old days to > > >> guarantee that the > > >> boot kernel was occupying the 1st 1024 cylinders > > >> > > > So where do the kernels go when you don't have a /boot partition? > > > I'm now using a seperate /boot partition but it's full now. > > > So is it possible to change this? > > > > Unmount your /boot partition (maybe you have to stop klogd first), > > remount it somewhere else, copy the files to the /boot dir on your root > > partition, change your fstab and reinstall your boot loader. The > > disadvantage is that if /boot is on the root partition, you can't have > > /boot read-only. > > I recently installed a system using a woody cd and configured a /boot > partition of 50MB, but it was too small when I tried to apt-get install
<correction> That was actually 10MB nominally in cfdisk, but turning out to be more like 7MB with overhead (I guess). Don't know what I was thinking, and no surprise that it didn't support an upgrade, but I posted here just to show a step-by-step way to resolve the matter. </correction> > another kernel. I copied /boot to /boot.new, then booted knoppix and > renamed /boot.new to /boot (on the / partition), edited /etc/fstab to > remove the /boot mount, chrooted to the / partition and ran lilo. Also > needed to run cfdisk to make the / partition bootable, then was back in > business. -- Ken Irving, Research Analyst, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 907-474-6152 Water and Environmental Research Center Institute of Northern Engineering University of Alaska, Fairbanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
