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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