Markus Hansen writes: > i have the following problem: > i want to have a harddisk like this: > hda1 : /boot > hda2 : / > had3 : /home > > hda3 is no problem (mount /dev/had3 /home) > but i installed a debian 2.2 potato on hda2 and i think it hadnt done > anything with hda1. > how can i force debian to install the boot folder into hda1? > but only that one, not the other directories?
First, backup all your important stuff. Assuming that /dev/hda1 actually exists, then you can just format it: % mke2fs /dev/hda1 Mount it somewhere handy: % mkdir /tmp/somewhere_handy % mount /dev/hda1 /tmp/somewhere_handy Copy your boot dir from /boot to /tmp/sowhere_handy: % cp -a /boot /tmp/somewhere_handy Make a backup of /boot: % cp -a /boot /root/boot.backup Make sure /boot will mount properly: % vi /etc/fstab # and put in a line like: # /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults 0 0 Make a bootdisk (just in case) # use whatever favorite method you want here Unmount /dev/hda1 and remount it as /boot % umount /dev/hda1 % mount /boot Make sure you've mounted /boot correctly % cd /boot % df . # This should show /dev/hda1 as the filesystem Run lilo % /sbin/lilo Reboot and hope that everything works: % reboot Note that this leaves you with two copies of your original /boot. The first one is in /boot when /dev/hda1 is unmounted, and the second is the backup you made. If everything boots okay, remove the first backup and reboot % umount /boot % rm /boot/* % mount /boot % /sbin/lilo % reboot If everything again works, you can get rid of the other backup. If these instructions don't work, you *do* have the backup and/or a boot disk, right? Andrew.
