Moving boot
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Mon Aug 20 12:41:37 UTC 2007
Karl Larsen wrote:
>>> I now have the /boot part of my whole system. But it would be easy to
>>> make a new partition of say 100 MB the first thing on the second hard
>>> drive. My question is what do I need to do so the new /boot works?
>>>
>>
>> I did something similar with a dual-boot system: Windows on the
>> original first drive, all by itself. And Linux installed on an added
>> second drive, all by itself.
>>
>> While setting up GRUB, you define its root (where /boot/ is) with a
>> "root (hd1,0)", then "setup (hd0)" which puts the bootloader onto the
>> first drive MBR, and quit out of the GRUB shell.
>>
>> [root at bigblack ~]# grub
>> grub> root (hd1,0)
>> grub> setup (hd0)
>> grub> quit
>> [root at bigblack ~]#
>>
>> In this scenario, the computer boots, reads the MBR on my first drive,
>> which starts off GRUB from my second drive.
>>
>> I believe that you can even set that up from within the GRUB start up
>> screen. Just hit the right hot key to get into the command line. You
>> can also do it from the rescue disc, so you can get a system working
>> that's not currently booting.
>>
>>
> I know Tim and that is what I use now that works. I have grub at
> (hd0) and the Linux is at (hd1,5). This works fine so why move /boot?
>
> I am certain that (hd1,5) is about 100 GB up from start of the second
> drive. And it works.
I thought this whole thread was about this setup not working all the
time. What does fdisk -l say about the cylinder range of that 5th
partition?
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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