Sid Boyce wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Monday 2007-12-03 at 13:07 -0000, Sid Boyce wrote:
That would be a step a long way back in time. I thought slicing and dicing a separate /boot partition went out with the need for steam trains, when PC BIOS restrictions meant you couldn't boot from a partition extending beyond the first 1024 cylinders.
Saying that is as if the politicians say that there is no need for protection or that your job and savings are secure :-P
The theory is that you do not need a separate boot partition. However... the truth is that in some scenarios it does help, and my xtall ball tells me this /may/ be one of those cases.
- -- Cheers, Carlos E. R.
Worth a try, using parted and squeezing /dev/sdb3 as /boot.
Thandk and Regards Sid.
I repartitioned the drive, /dev/sdb1 as / (jfs), /dev/sdb2 as /boot (reiserfs) and /dev/sdb3 as swap and used rsync to copy all the data across. After several tries, I finally got it boot, except for a problem with gfxmenu not being found. (hd1,1)/message, (hd1,0)/boot/message, (hd1,0)/message (after cp /boot/message /), /dev/sdb2/message have all been tried. Tried YaST, but when I click on Finish and go back in again /boot/message is gone from the previous YaST setup. Tried some other stuff from the YaST script by hand after "mkdir /tmp/gfxmenu", everything there looks fine. # /usr/bin/cpio -i < /boot/message # ls /tmp/gfxmenu/ 16x16.fnt back.jpg en.hlp en.tr gfxboot.cfg init lang languages pabout.txt panim_a.jpg panim.jpg pback.jpg phead.jpg timer_a.jpg translations.en # less /tmp/gfxmenu/pabout.txt Penguin theme originally made by Raphael Quinet (http://www.gamers.org/~quinet/lilo/). Modernized for openSUSE by Steffen Winterfeldt. Like it or hate it? Edit gfxboot.cfg in /boot/message to have it always or to get rid of it. # less /tmp/gfxmenu/gfxboot.cfg # penguin theme likelihood in percent; -1 = auto penguin=0 welcome=1 # /usr/lib/YaST2/bin/update_gfxmenu 760 blocks cp: missing destination file operand after `./translations.' Try `cp --help' for more information. tindog:/tmp/gfxmenu # ls | cpio -o >/boot/message.new && mv /boot/message.new /boot/message 760 blocks tindog:/tmp/gfxmenu # l /boot/message -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 389120 2007-12-07 21:18 /boot/message # rpm -qf /usr/lib/YaST2/bin/update_gfxmenu yast2-bootloader-2.16.2-14 Still, "/boot/message" can't be found. Checked to make sure ImageMagick is installed in case it's used. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org