Hi, I am attempting to move my /boot partition on a specific machine to make way for a Windows XP dual boot. This machine is the only one with a graphics adapter that meets the requirements of my son's new game.
and right now the machine is no longer booting...... Bummer.... OK, so I used to have /dev/sda1 /boot /dev/sda2 swap /dev/sda3 / and then some higher partitions, and a bunch of unused disk space. To get ready to add Windows I created two new partitions: /dev/sda9 /boot /dev/sda10 swap First I added the new swap to fstab, rebooted and made sure it was picked up correctly. I then copied everything in the old boot /dev/sda1 to the new boot /dev/sda9 and modified the grub.conf file on the new boot partition to ensure it was getting called with new names for the boot options after I rebooted. I also attempted to change the boot options themselves to point at the new boot partition. The old grub.conf and new grub.conf file examples are shown: OLD: title 2.6.16-gentoo-r2 root (hd0,0) kernel (hd0,0)/boot/bzImage-2.6.16-gentoo-r2 root=/dev/sda3 NEW: title New Layot 2.6.16-gentoo-r2 root (hd0,8) kernel (hd0,8)/boot/bzImage-2.6.16-gentoo-r2 root=/dev/sda3 When this was complete I ran grub using the commands grub root (hd0,8) setup (hd0) quit My understand of the above is that the root (hd0,8) says place the second part of grub on /dev/sda9 (drive 0, partition 8) while the second says place the first part of grub in the MRB. I then rebooted: 1) There is a long delay. I then get a message about the kernel file not being found. Grub drops me into the grub choice screen which is messed up text. 2) I do see the 'New Layout' names so it does seem to be finding /dev/sda9 with the new text 3) None of the options work. I've now rebooted using the Gentoo 2006.0 install CD. The kernels are on /dev/sda9 so it seems grub should be able to find them but it isn't. Can anyone suggest what I'm missing here? thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
