Re: Partitioning after-effects (after the fact)

2001-08-30 Thread dman
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 07:55:56PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote: | On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 09:44:25PM -0400, dman wrote: | > On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 06:23:08PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote: | > ... | > | In GRUB, you can go into "Edit" mode and specify the root device, | > | location of the /boot/gr

Re: Partitioning after-effects (after the fact)

2001-08-29 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 09:44:25PM -0400, dman wrote: > On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 06:23:08PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote: > ... > | In GRUB, you can go into "Edit" mode and specify the root device, > | location of the /boot/grub/menu.1st, etc... It's not a bad idea to > > Before the stage2 has loa

Re: Partitioning after-effects (after the fact)

2001-08-29 Thread dman
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 06:23:08PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote: ... | In GRUB, you can go into "Edit" mode and specify the root device, | location of the /boot/grub/menu.1st, etc... It's not a bad idea to Before the stage2 has loaded? How?! | write GRUB to a floppy either... Yes! Always have

Re: Partitioning after-effects (after the fact)

2001-08-29 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 01:45:42PM -0400, dman wrote: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 01:07:44AM +0800, csj wrote: > | Not quite. It seems that the famed grub command prompt can't handle a > | shifted partition. Remember how grub freaks like to brag about the > | bootloader's ability to arbitrarily load

Re: Partitioning after-effects (after the fact)

2001-08-29 Thread dman
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 01:07:44AM +0800, csj wrote: ... | Not quite. It seems that the famed grub command prompt can't handle a | shifted partition. Remember how grub freaks like to brag about the | bootloader's ability to arbitrarily load kernels (the reason I shifted | to grub when I first b

Re: Partitioning after-effects (after the fact)

2001-08-29 Thread csj
On 27 Aug 2001 18:54:36 -0400, dman wrote: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 06:48:50AM +0800, csj wrote: > | I'm planning to repartition part of my HD. Previously, I only > | partitioned the whole drive as part of a Linux reinstallation. So I'm > | somewhat clueless about partitions and partitioning. The