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:
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> 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:
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> 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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