On Thursday 19 July 2001 09:02, Shawn Tayler wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 20:16:20 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
> >It would probably be better to have a separate ext2 /boot partition if one
> >wants to boot different versions of Linux off the same /boot partition.
> > We do this to avoid any potential 1024 segment problems, sharing /boot
> > amongst multiple Linux versions.
>
> This brings up a side point for me. I just spent several days trying
> to get Grub back working on my main Linux box. I had delete 2 unused
> partitions (extended logical drives) and this changed the /dev point
> for my root drive. I did have a primary partition, 30M, that was
> mounted as /boot (when the system worked, before my little escapade).
> My / part went from /dev/sda8 to sda6, this frelled up the whole thing
> big time. I was finally able to get Grub working again by copying all
> the info from my old /boot part to a new directory on / called /boot.
> the old part is no longer mounted.
>
> My question is, How would one go about making a new /boot part and get
> Grub to boot off it? I tried to put Grub on the old /boot ( root was
> (hd0,2) the kernel line was "kernel = /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2-modular
> vga=274 quiet root=/dev/sda6" The Kernel would start but it would
> panic saying it couldn't mount the root file system. I ended up with
> /boot on the / part and Grub on the /dev/sda6 or /part. I'd like to
> get /boot back on /dev/sda3 but After all the trouble I am a bit
> hesitant. I have stage1 and 2 on /dev/sda6 for now, I am using power
> boot to get there, I have DOS and Wincrap also on the drive.
>
> What is the trick?
>
> stayler
Install grub on the MBR with it pointing to the /boot partition... and the
grub stages and menu.lst would also be on that /boot partition.
I think I sent you an install command to do this.
The only thing 'hard coded' within the grub boot code is a pointer to where
to find its menu.lst and other load parts.
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