On Wednesday 19 July 2006 08:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm in the process of moving over to a new PC, with a fresh install of > Ubuntu (6.06). I'm gradually learning the Debian way of things (as > opposed to the Red Hat way). > > When I installed, I thought 10GB would be enough space for the root > partition. And it was - by about 300MB. (I selected a lot of > useful-sounding packages.) > > The root partition for the install was hda6, and so I resized hda7 to > 12GB, and copied all of hda6 to hda7, then booted up that. (I then > fixed /etc/fstab to point / at hda7 and added all the hda7 > kernels to menu.lst and copied that file to both drives and rebooted > again, because having grub and fstab disagree about where / was, > confused the system substantially.) > > That worked well. [snip]
Luke there is no magic, so just be consistent and all will be well ... /boot/grub/menu.lst specifically shows what disks and partitions are used. you can specify root (hd0,1) bla bla or specify the root here (hd0,6)/boot/vmlinuz-bla fstab must be correct or it wont work (or worse) if / in listed as /dev/hda6 even though it is hda7 6 is used 7 is not and this explains your chaos. The best way to do this: boot knoppix fiddle your partitions fix the files eg fstab boot your system even easier have another partition/system. boot that and fix this. James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
