Partition Table (Resend)

Matthew S-H mathbymath at aol.com
Tue May 3 08:11:17 UTC 2005


Maybe I am doing something wrong.  I tryed running "sudo grub-install 
/dev/hdb10" from Terminal on the live CD, but it gave me the error:
> Could not find device for /boot: Not found or not a block device.
Any ideas on why this might be?

Thanks,
~Matt


On May 3, 2005, at 3:08 AM, Frank Schafer wrote:

> 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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