On 2010/03/03 12:24 (GMT-0500) Felix Miata composed:
On 2010/03/03 11:35 (GMT-0500) James Knott composed:
The Windows partition (sda1) was expanded because the old one was just about full. There's also another partion (sda2, formerly FAT32 now EXT3, that's used to exchange data between Windows & Linux. It was expanded from 2 GB to 60. /boot is on sda5. The extended partition is sda3 and LVM is sda6. Sda4 was the XP recovery partition on the old drive, but doesn't seem to have appeared on the new one. I suspect this may be due to the large size, as some partitioning utilities don't appear to work with more than 128 GB. It's not an issue as I have the recovery CDs from IBM.
Here's what fdisk shows for the old drive.
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 1087 8723295 7 HPFS/NTFS c: /dev/sda2 1087 1349 2104484 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) d: /dev/sda3 1349 4741 27251909+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) (extended) /dev/sda4 4741 4864 982800 1c Hidden W95 FAT32 (LBA) restore Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda5 1349 1353 40131 83 Linux /boot /dev/sda6 1354 4740 27206046 8e Linux LVM LVM
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 5165 41487831 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 5166 12461 58605120 83 Linux /dev/sda3 12462 30401 144103050 5 Extended /dev/sda5 12462 12467 48163+ 83 Linux /dev/sda6 12468 15861 27262273+ 83 Linux
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 1 1910 488816 b W95 FAT32
Option 1: follow instructions in my Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:05:28 -0500 thread post for making Windows the primary boot loader, except substitute /dev/sda5 for /dev/sda3.
Option 2: install Grub to /dev/sda3 (extended) (I never do this myself, so pass on offering instructions)
Option 3: install Grub to MBR (/dev/sda) (I never do this myself, so pass on offering instructions)
Option 4: a) delete new sda5 b) create new sda4 in its place c) mkfs sda4 d) cp -a, rsync, or etc. the old sda5 to new sda4 e) install Grub to sda4 f) set sda4 active/bootable g) adjust /etc/fstab for relocated /boot
Option 5: a) shrink sda2 by 1 cyl at end or sda5 by 1 cyl at start b) install IBM Boot Manager to sda4 c) set sda4 active/bootable
Option 6&: install some other boot manager to sda4, sdb, or sda boot track
Missed option 0 (thinking sda2 was still FAT32 as on old HD): a) install Grub to sda2 b) set sda2 active/bootable -- "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams, 2nd US President Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org