On 10/4/07, Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Manu Hack wrote: > >>> > >> If a couple of reboots is ok for you, the following method might work. > > > > Yes, and thanks a lot for the instruction. > > > >> You can use 'dd' to clone hda2 to hda1. Boot your system with > >> "init=/bin/bash". When you get to the bash prompt, do > >> > >> bash# dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/dev/hda1 > >> > >> When that completes, you would have your installation available on both > >> the partitions. The 5GB hda1 would contain a filesystem that is only 1GB > >> large. Restart your system. You would boot normally with a 1GB root. > >> > >> Edit "/boot/grub/menu.lst" and add an entry for the linux on hda1. > >> set root to (hd0,0) and append root=/dev/hda1 for the kernel line of the > >> new entry. > >> > >> mkdir /tmp/newroot; mount /dev/hda1 /tmp/newroot > >> > >> Edit the file /tmp/newroot/boot/grub/menu.lst and replace (hd0,1) with > >> (hda0,0) and root=/dev/hda2 with root=/dev/hda1. Similarly fix the root > >> filesystem entry in /tmp/newroot/etc/fstab by changing /dev/hda2 to > >> /dev/hda1. > >> > >> Now you should be able to boot into either of your two partitions. > > > > So I got two grub/menu.lst, but how grub knows which one to read (one > > is hda1 and one is hda2)? > > Grub will read the menu.lst from the partition that contained > /boot/grub/menu.lst when "grub-install" was run.
So if I want grub to read the menu.lst from hda1, I should boot in using hda1 and run grub-install /dev/hda1 and then supposedly I can use hda2 for other storage? > > >> Feel free to post any problems you may have and make sure you take a > >> backup of important files before proceeding. > >> > > > > Finally I followed your instruction and now I got what I wanted. > > Really thanks a lot and hopefully this can help others too. (not to > > mention I learned a lot!) :) > > This is one important reason why I am in love with linux. :) A little > curiosity and it lets you learn everything you care about hardware/software. Yes, Linux is so good. After dual booting for a while I don't even want/need to use M$ anymore and that's why I want to kill M$ completely. (not to mention the label on the laptop!) :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]