Re: Subsume boot partition into root partition - how?

Dave Royal wrote:

Rajko M. wrote:
...

To give more detailed instructions, I would need output of command
mount | grep boot
that should show is /boot mounted, and
cat /etc/fstab
to see where is current boot and root partition.

dave@LEN:~> mount | grep boot
/dev/sda5 on /boot type ext2 (rw,acl,user_xattr)

This means:
umount /boot
mount /dev/sda5 /mnt
cp -R /boot/* /boot/

Now you have /boot directory filled with files from /dev/sda5 .
In case of reboot nothing bad can happen, as originals are
still untouched.
Next is to edit /etc/fstab . I turned word wrap off to have
whole lines, not wrapped in a new line.

dave@LEN:~> cat /etc/fstab

Just in case:
cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab-old

Comment out line with /boot .
I use Midnight Commander http://en.opensuse.org/Midnight_Commander
that has built in editor (key F4).

/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_HTS541060G9SA00_MPBCL5XGKMLL9T-part6 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_HTS541060G9SA00_MPBCL5XGKMLL9T-part3 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1
# /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_HTS541060G9SA00_MPBCL5XGKMLL9T-part5 /boot ext2 acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_HTS541060G9SA00_MPBCL5XGKMLL9T-part7 /home ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_HTS541060G9SA00_MPBCL5XGKMLL9T-part1 /windows/C ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_GB.UTF-8 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
/dev/sda8 /home/share vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,utf8=true 0 0

More detailed instructions /would/ be appreciated.

Next is:
cp /boot/grub/menu.lst /boot/grub/menu.lst-old

and run YaST Bootloader to install new version of GRUB that will
point to / (dev/sdb3). Note that /dev/sdb3 is (hd0,2) in grub notation.

When done check /boot/grub/menu.lst is it looking sane.
If not post question.

--
Regards, Rajko
http://en.opensuse.org/Portal needs helpful hands.
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