Partition Reorganization

[Leonard Chatagnier]

Thanks, Derek, I needed that. Trying to help got me
over my head.  Already gave my appology to SYNass.
Now, I may have learned something. My appologies to
the list.

--- Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:

> Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> 
> > --- SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux <i-ubux at synass.net>
> > wrote:
> > 
> >> After reorganizing my HDD with gParted it looks
> like
> >> following:
> >> hda1 / ntfs (WIN XPP original installation)
> >> hda2 / ext3 (Ubuntu installation)
> >> hda3 / extended part (rest of HDD)
> >> hda6 / copy of hda2 (my first Ubuntu
> installation)
> >> swap at the end of the extended partition
> >> 
> >> How can I get Ubuntu starting with the one in
> hda6
> >> ???
> >> 
> >> Well, in the menu.lst of both the Ubuntu
> partitions
> >> it shows hda2 !!
> 
> You weren't expecting the one on hda6 to know it had
> been moved were you? 
> Computers aren't that smart yet :-)
> 
> Change the line beginning:
> # kopt 
> to point to the correct root filesystem.  Note, this
> may well be a UUID -
> and you had better have different UUIDs on the
> partitions (if you copied
> one to the other with "dd", you don't - if you
> created a new filesystem
> with mkfs or a partition manager, you do).
> 
> Change the line:
> # groot=(hd0,1)
> to:
> # groot=(hd0,5)
> 
> Copy that menu.lst to _both_ partitions ('coz you're
> going to start this
> process from one and end it on the other).
> 
> Then run:
> # sudo update-grub
> 
> >> Where is the pointer to direct either WIN or
> Ubuntu
> >> ?
> >> Is it MBR and how do I adjust it to my newest
> >> configuration ?
> 
> In a default install, MBR points to the Grub first
> level loader.  It finds
> the menu.lst on your disk and builds the menu from
> that.
> 
> > Hello SYHass, I'm no expert so take what I say
> with
> > caution.  That said, have you considered taking
> the
> > boot tic off of hda2 and ticing it on hda6. I
> think
> > that should work. If not someone will surely
> correct
> > me. HTH.
> 
> Ahem :-)  Linux doesn't care about "boot tics" (I
> presume you mean
> the "bootable" flag on the partition table - Windows
> doesn't even care
> about it any more; Vista, at least, can boot from
> partitions not marked
> bootable).
> -- 
> derek
> 
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Leonard Chatagnier
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