Hi Robert and everyone. I was able to resolve this with help from ubuntuforums. First, I booted from the live CD, turned of the swap partition with sudo swapoff -a deleted the mepis partition and resized the ubuntu partition to use the whole of the drive (minus the swap partition of course).
I then followed the instructions at the following link: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoveringUbuntuAfterInstallingWindows and, on reboot, verything worked perfectly. Hope this is of help to others. Frank --- On Mon, 18/8/08, Robert C Wittig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Robert C Wittig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Changing Grub To: [email protected] Date: Monday, 18 August, 2008, 10:37 PM frnk.newman wrote: > I tried posting this on another group but have had no response so > hoping I have better luck here! > > At present, I have a multi-boot setup on my PC, with XP on one hard > drive (sda1) and two main partitions on the second hard drive, roughly > 50/50, containing Ubuntu HH on sdb1 and Mepis 7 on sdb3. > > I now want to get rid of Mepis and concentrate on ubuntu as it is > fulfilling all my needs and enabling me to do without Windows for 90% > of my work. I also need the extra space for programs etc. > Unfortunately, as mepis was a later install, the grub is controlled > from there. I know that I could do a fresh install of ubuntu using the > whole of sdb and setting up the dual-boot with XP from there but I an > loathe to do this as I have already spent a lot of time personalising > ubuntu and don't want to lose all my settings. > > Is it possible to re-partition sdb to achieve this and change the grub > to ubuntu? If so, I would appreciate simple instructions as I am still > very much a newbie with linux. > It appears that it can be done. Stage 1 Grub is on the MBR for your Primary HD, and it does contain embedded variables (like the pointer to Stage 2 that can be redefined w/o recompiling: http://www.linuxsel fhelp.com/ gnu/grub/ html_chapter/ grub_22.html ...so if you want to give it a try, it might work. Then again, it might just be easier to reinstall. If you do a successful hack, please document it and post it to list. -- -wittig http://www.robertwi ttig.com/ http://robertwittig .net/ http://robertwittig .org/ . Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
