On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 10:13:17PM +0100, Andreas Janssen wrote: > wsa (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > Alvin Oga wrote: > > > >> /boot is NOT needed ... - /boot was needed in the old days to > >> guarantee that the > >> boot kernel was occupying the 1st 1024 cylinders > >> > > So where do the kernels go when you don't have a /boot partition? > > I'm now using a seperate /boot partition but it's full now. > > So is it possible to change this? > > Unmount your /boot partition (maybe you have to stop klogd first), > remount it somewhere else, copy the files to the /boot dir on your root > partition, change your fstab and reinstall your boot loader. The > disadvantage is that if /boot is on the root partition, you can't have > /boot read-only.
I recently installed a system using a woody cd and configured a /boot partition of 50MB, but it was too small when I tried to apt-get install another kernel. I copied /boot to /boot.new, then booted knoppix and renamed /boot.new to /boot (on the / partition), edited /etc/fstab to remove the /boot mount, chrooted to the / partition and ran lilo. Also needed to run cfdisk to make the / partition bootable, then was back in business. -- Ken Irving, Research Analyst, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 907-474-6152 Water and Environmental Research Center Institute of Northern Engineering University of Alaska, Fairbanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
