Partition Table (Resend)

Frank Schafer frank.schafer at t-systems.cz
Tue May 3 07:08:47 UTC 2005


Hi,

due to the error from grub I'd say that hda6 was your old /boot
partition or the partition containing /boot (maybe /).

Just boot from some life CD and do a grub install for your new /boot /.

Frank

On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 02:08 -0400, Matthew S-H wrote:
> 
> 
> ______________________________________________________________________
> 
> I'm resending this because I didn't get any responses. I'm desperately
> hoping someone can help me.  I don't want to have to erase the entire
> hard drive.  If anyone has any ideas on how I can down by one (ie:
> hdb8 becomes hdb9), I would appreciate it.  I hope that would solve my
> problem.
> 
> I just reinstalled Ubuntu Hoary (I used a Warty CD and then ran a
> dist-upgrade).  I then surfed the web a bit (just taking a break). And
> then I proceeded to mount the partitions from my old Hoary
> installation to migrate the data.  The only partition I really needed
> was the /dev/hdb6 partition that contained my home folder.  I
> proceeded to copy over all he files I needed into my new home folder.
> Then, I booted off of the Warty install disk and deleted /dev/hdb6.
> Now, the computer won't boot.  I get this error in grub whenever I try
> to boot:
> 
>         GRUB Loading stage1.5.
>         
>         
>         GRUB loading, please wait...
>         Error 15
> 
> Here is the current state of my partitions (in order):
>         /dev/hda1   primary 10.7GB  ntfs
>             FREE SPACE      6.3GB
>         /dev/hda3   primary 22.9GB  ntfs
>             FREE SPACE      2.8MB
>         
>         /dev/hdb9   logical 9.9GB   ext3        /
>         /dev/hdb10  logical 1.9GB   ext3        /boot
>         /dev/hdb11  logical 4.9GB   ext3        /tmp
>         /dev/hdb12  logical 9.9GB   ext3        /usr
>         /dev/hdb13  logical 3.9GB   ext3        /var
>         /dev/hdb14  logical 11.9GB  ext3        /home
>         /dev/hdb16  logical 6.6GB   swap
>         /dev/hdb15  logical 14.9GB  ext3        /home/matt/Media_Files
>             FREE SPACE      23.2GB
>         /dev/hdb8   logical 6.0GB   ext3        (FROM OLD SETUP)
>         /dev/hdb7   logical 3.9GB   ext3       (FROM OLD SETUP)
>         /dev/hdb6   logical 1.0GB   ext3       (FROM OLD SETUP)
>         /dev/hdb5   logical 17.9GB  ext3       (FROM WARTY)
>             FREE SPACE      3.2GB
> 
> Here is what used to be the state of my partitions (I think):
>         /dev/hda1   primary 10.7GB  ntfs
>             FREE SPACE      6.3GB
>         /dev/hda3   primary 22.9GB  ntfs
>             FREE SPACE      2.8MB
>         
>         /dev/hdb10  logical 9.9GB   ext3        /
>         /dev/hdb11  logical 1.9GB   ext3        /boot
>         /dev/hdb12  logical 4.9GB   ext3        /tmp
>         /dev/hdb13  logical 9.9GB   ext3        /usr
>         /dev/hdb14  logical 3.9GB   ext3        /var
>         /dev/hdb15  logical 11.9GB  ext3        /home
>         /dev/hdb17  logical 6.6GB   swap
>         /dev/hdb16  logical 14.9GB  ext3        /home/matt/Media_Files
>         /dev/hdb6  logical 6GB     ext3       (OLD)  /home
>             FREE SPACE      17.2GB
>         /dev/hdb9   logical 6.0GB   ext3       (FROM OLD SETUP)
>         /dev/hdb8   logical 3.9GB   ext3       (FROM OLD SETUP)
>         /dev/hdb7   logical 1.0GB   ext3       (FROM OLD SETUP)
>         /dev/hdb5   logical 17.9GB  ext3       (FROM WARTY)
>             FREE SPACE      3.2GB
> 
> Note that the only addition was the OLD /home partition.  I have
> assumed that everything was just moved down by one when I deleted the
> hdb6 (OLD /home) partition.
> Note that this is the only change I have made.  I didn't mean to
> change anything.  I wanted to just delete that partition to free up
> some space because I didn't need it any more.
> 
> Thanks for your help guys,
> ~Matt 




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