-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2005-09-02 at 17:54 -0800, Greg Wallace wrote:
Well, I've been trying to move toward 9.3 in a step by step fashion, starting from 8.1. I had problems with 8.2 so I skipped by it and went to 9.0. Everything was fine there, so I proceeded to migrate to 9.1.
What a job!
1) Somehow, my boot loader got moved down too far into the partition and my hardware can't branch to it, so I can't boot from the hardware. I can't understand how the hell this could happen since I only have 2 partitions, a 3 gig swap and then my regular partition. Is there some way that you can move the boot partition up to (say) the top of the regular partition?
You mean move the boot directory up to the top of the regular partition. No, there isn't. You can, however, create a small (20-30 Mb) ext2 partition dedicated to /boot somewhere at the start of the HD - which as it is already formatted, means trouble. Perhaps you can get that space out of the swap partition. ....
I have no idea what to do from here. I don't want to go to 9.2 until I can download the 9.1 patches and I can't do that until I can get to the web.
I'd probably update to 9.3 at this point, you will have to redo many things anyway. But backup first, of course. (I updated from 9.1 to 9.3 - and previously from 8.2, and 8.1 before that.) - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFDHDF3tTMYHG2NR9URAkq4AJoCvILt//DlXnmAS04Ws/WD4ym7dQCfTXZX HHeLij34hBuqg9iRGkMX4sA= =5XuS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----