Hi folks, Lesson learned today: no resizing of ntfs partitions because all those margaritas are keeping you from sleeping...
Here's what i did: My ntfs partion was hda1, /boot hda5 / hda6 I shrunk the ntfs (successfuly) at the cli. I think at this point, it told me that it renamed the partitions, so that the new one was hda5, hda5 became hda6, ... Then, i went to diskdrake (which i prolly should have done first) and formatted and mounted hda5 as /stuff. It didn't show as formatted in diskdrake, but i could go into it and make files, etc. So i very dumbly decided that was a good time to reboot. Well, when i reboot, i get kernel panic for no INIT= (i think) and when i "upgrade" i find that hda6 (which is where /boot is) has errors that the install cd can't fix. Ok, so what should i do now? I have heard people on the list say it is not necessary to put /boot on it's own part, so feel free to suggest any appropriate options. I will go off and google now, but i trust you folks a lot more, so hopefully someone will know the fix. As far as i can tell, just getting the /boot dir functional and maybe redoing the bootloader should be enough. If it helps, lilo is working fine, and it does still boot into windows just fine. I am running ML 9.1. Thanks in advance for any rescue advice! eric
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