expand /boot partition?

David Vincent dvincent at sleepdeprived.ca
Tue Jun 17 22:53:33 UTC 2008


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chris wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 2:08 PM, chris <lostpkts at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I booted a Ubuntu Live CD and can't even get grub to install on sda2.
>>
>> grub-install /dev/sda2
>>
>> says it can't find /boot.   Do I need to have it mounted?
>>
>> Currently I figured out how to mount my encrypted lvm2 partition so
>> that I can copy my /home directory off.  Whew!
>>
> 
> 
> I was able to recover Ubuntu to boot and still keep windows happy.
> 
> Booted form live cd again.
> 
> # grub
> grub> root (hd0,1)
> grub> setup (hd0,1)
> grub> quit
> 
> Then all was fine.  Whew.
> 
> Was happy to figure out though to mount the encrypted partition and
> get my data off just in case. (Thanks in large part to Google. )
> 
> But now my /boot is 150M so I'm not going to have to worry about space
> on future kernel updates.
> 
> Thanks again for help
> 

glad to hear you made it chris!  i was beginning to fear for you and
your data for a moment there...

- -d


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