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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