On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:08:14 +0000, Tom Bamford wrote: > You can renumber your partitions but you'll need a live CD to do it > with. Assuming you have either backed up your entire system or you don't > care if you nuke it by accident or by means of a power cut - boot off > the live cd, then run (in a terminal window) > > sudo fdisk /dev/sda > > > Press x to go into the fdisk advanced menu, then press f to fix the > partition order. You'll need to update your grub configuration, so mount > your /boot (or /) partition in a temporary location and locate your > system's /boot/grub/menu.lst file. Update any partition references in > the notation "hd(0,1)" - the second number may have to be knocked down > one to reflect the new order. > > I would also check to see if any of your partition UUIDs have changed as > a result of renumbering them. Open your grub menu file in one window and > a terminal in the other. Run this command in the terminal > > ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid > > to list your partition UUIDs and manuall inspect your grub file to make > sure they match up. Make any corrections where necessary, making sure > the line "root=UUID=1234567890" parameter is correct on any line > beginning with the word "kernel". Once done, save the menu file, unmount > your partitions and reboot your system. Hopefully it will boot, if not > then note down any errors and reboot into the live CD.
Looks like a great solution. I'll give it a try. Thank you. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
