Partition Table (Resend)
Frank Schafer
frank.schafer at t-systems.cz
Tue May 3 08:40:26 UTC 2005
You have forgotten to modify your grub.conf (or menu.lst)
On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 04:11 -0400, Matthew S-H wrote:
> 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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