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