Sid Boyce wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Monday 2007-12-03 at 13:07 -0000, Sid Boyce wrote:
That would be a step a long way back in time. I thought slicing and
dicing a separate /boot partition went out with the need for steam
trains, when PC BIOS restrictions meant you couldn't boot from a
partition extending beyond the first 1024 cylinders.
Saying that is as if the politicians say that there is no need for
protection or that your job and savings are secure :-P
The theory is that you do not need a separate boot partition.
However... the truth is that in some scenarios it does help, and my
xtall ball tells me this /may/ be one of those cases.
- -- Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
Worth a try, using parted and squeezing /dev/sdb3 as /boot.
Thandk and Regards
Sid.
I repartitioned the drive, /dev/sdb1 as / (jfs), /dev/sdb2 as /boot
(reiserfs) and /dev/sdb3 as swap and used rsync to copy all the data
across. After several tries, I finally got it boot, except for a problem
with gfxmenu not being found. (hd1,1)/message, (hd1,0)/boot/message,
(hd1,0)/message (after cp /boot/message /), /dev/sdb2/message have all
been tried. Tried YaST, but when I click on Finish and go back in again
/boot/message is gone from the previous YaST setup.
Tried some other stuff from the YaST script by hand after "mkdir
/tmp/gfxmenu", everything there looks fine.
# /usr/bin/cpio -i < /boot/message
# ls /tmp/gfxmenu/
16x16.fnt back.jpg en.hlp en.tr gfxboot.cfg init lang languages
pabout.txt panim_a.jpg panim.jpg pback.jpg phead.jpg timer_a.jpg
translations.en
# less /tmp/gfxmenu/pabout.txt
Penguin theme originally made by Raphael Quinet
(http://www.gamers.org/~quinet/lilo/).
Modernized for openSUSE by Steffen Winterfeldt.
Like it or hate it? Edit gfxboot.cfg in /boot/message
to have it always or to get rid of it.
# less /tmp/gfxmenu/gfxboot.cfg
# penguin theme likelihood in percent; -1 = auto
penguin=0
welcome=1
# /usr/lib/YaST2/bin/update_gfxmenu
760 blocks
cp: missing destination file operand after `./translations.'
Try `cp --help' for more information.
tindog:/tmp/gfxmenu # ls | cpio -o >/boot/message.new && mv
/boot/message.new /boot/message
760 blocks
tindog:/tmp/gfxmenu # l /boot/message
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 389120 2007-12-07 21:18 /boot/message
# rpm -qf /usr/lib/YaST2/bin/update_gfxmenu
yast2-bootloader-2.16.2-14
Still, "/boot/message" can't be found. Checked to make sure ImageMagick
is installed in case it's used.
Regards
Sid.
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