Re: Removing Windows from Dual Boot

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On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 13:31 -0400, Weiner, Michael wrote:
> I am sure this has been asked a number of times, and I am not finding
> anything relevant using a google search, so I thought I would post my
> query here. I have a user that owns a Dell Inspiron laptop, that has a
> 60G drive split in two, with Windows XP on the first partition, and
> Fedora Core 7 on the second. Now, he decides he would like me to
> remove Windows XP and make it a 100% linux laptop. Great, I think to
> myself, a convert! Until I look at the way it is configured:
> 
>  
> 
> [root@leex ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sda
> 
>  
> 
> Disk /dev/sda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
> 
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders
> 
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> 
>  
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> 
> /dev/sda1   *           1        3470    27872743+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> 
> /dev/sda2            3471        3483      104422+  83  Linux
> 
> /dev/sda3            3484        7296    30627922+  8e  Linux LVM
> 
>  
> 
> [root@leex ~]# df
> 
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> 
> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
> 
>                       28599044  22148476   4974372  82% /
> 
> /dev/sda2               101105     18631     77253  20% /boot
> 
> tmpfs                   257416         0    257416   0% /dev/shm
> 
>  
> 
> And from /boot/grub/grub.conf
> 
> #boot=/dev/sda
> 
> default=0
> 
> timeout=5
> 
> splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> 
> hiddenmenu
> 
> title Fedora Core 7
> 
>         root (hd0,1)
> 
>         kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.23.17-88.fc7 ro
> root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
> 
>         initrd /initrd-2.6.23.17-88.fc7.img
> 
> title Microsoft Windows XP
> 
>         rootnoverify (hd0,0)
> 
>         chainloader +1
> 
>  
> 
> I find many tutorials showing how to uninstall Linux from the second
> partition and return the machine back to the original XP
> configuration, but none really documenting the process going the other
> way (eg keeping linux and dumping xp). And I am not even sure it can
> be done. 
> 
>  
> 
> Has anyone done this? If so, is there some documentation that I can
> sneak a peak at to help push me in the right direction?
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Michael 
> 
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Well the first thing I would do would be to modify the grub.conf file
and comment out the lines that make windows an option to boot.

After a test boot that shows only linux as boot options in the grub
menu, I would remove the commented lines out of the grub.conf and boot
again.

Last thing to do would be to trash the windows partition, reformat that
as an LVM partition and add it to LVM as another logical volume.



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