RE: [SLE] FW: Grub Problem (Was "Major Problem Moving form 9.0 to 9.1")

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Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 18:25:12 -0800

On Saturday, September, 03, 2005 @ 5:51 PM, Carl Hartung wrote:

>On Saturday 03 September 2005 21:30, you wrote:
>> On Saturday, September 03, 2005, Carl Hartung wrote:
>> >On Saturday 03 September 2005 20:43, Greg Wallace wrote:
>> >> I forgot to mention. The reason I'm migrating instead of doing fresh
>> >> installs is that I need to carry my Oracle system with me. I don't
know
>> >> how to back all of that up and get it re-installed from scratch.
That's
>> >> why I'm migrating. I tried jumping from 9.0 to 9.2 and from 9.0 to
9.3,
>> >> but it doesn't seem to be supported (it said something about no plan
for
>>> >> converting packages).
>> >
>> >Hi Greg,
>> >
>> >Sorry, I was called out early this morning and just got back.
>> >
>> >So, you were able to boot normally under 9.0 and it is failing under
9.1?
>> >
>> >- Carl
>>
>> No problem. Thanks for giving me your time. And, yes, you're exactly
>> right. I guess /boot/grub... is now too far down on my drive for my Dell
>> machine to branch to stage2 at boot time. Maybe my only solution is to
>> create multiple partitions and move /boot to the first partition. That
>> would guarantee that it would be high enough on the disk for the BIOS to
>> branch to. I'm basing this on my recollections of earlier related
threads
>> and I may be completely off base. If I'm on the right track, I need to

--
>>
>> 1)  Split my physical partition into two logicals, with the first being
one
>> containing only the /boot directory
>> 2)  Set up grub to boot using that partition.
>> 3)  When the system boots, have both of these partitions mounted so I can
>> access all of the data in all of my directories.
>>
>> Am I on the right track here?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Greg Wallace
>Hi Greg,
>I don't mind you taking this off-list, but I want to confirm this was your 
>intent? Also, can you send/post your current /etc/fstab?
>Carl
Hey Carl.  No, I didn't mean to take it off list.  I have to change "To"
each time I send and your "suselinux..." looked at a glance like the correct
To (I should have looked more closely).  Anyway, here's my fstab (blank line
inserted between entries) --
/dev/hda2               /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
devpts                  /dev/pts                devpts  mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
/dev/cdrecorder      /media/cdrecorder    subfs
fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec 0 0
/dev/cdrom           /media/cdrom         subfs
fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec 0 0
/dev/fd0             /media/floppy        subfs
fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0
/dev/sda1               /media/sda1             auto    noauto,user,exec 0 0
/dev/sda1               /media/sda1             auto
sync,noauto,user,exec 0 0
/dev/sda2               /media/sda2             auto
sync,noauto,user,exec 0 0
/dev/sda2               /media/sda5             ext2    noauto          0 0
proc                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
usbdevfs                /proc/bus/usb           usbdevfs noauto          0 0
/dev/hda1               swap                    swap    pri=42          0 0
Jumping ahead a bit, would the following plan be on the right track --
1)  Convert /dev/hda2 to an extended partition
2)  Insert two logical partitions beneath that.  The first would be small
and just contain /boot... and the second would contain the rest of my data
Then, everything required at boot should be high enough to satisfy my BIOS.
Am I on the right track, or am I all wet?  By the way, I know this is a
holiday weekend.  And this is certainly not urgent.  In fact, work wise,
this is not holding me up right now.  It's just something I need to get
resolved here in, hopefully, the next week or two.  Right now, I'm off to
run some errands.  I'll check email when I get back and, if you're off to
other things, I'll keep checking on and off every so often until you have
time to get back.  Have a nice weekend!
Thanks again,
Greg Wallace
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