On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 03:44, Dr. Peter Boy wrote: > I'm not sure, if I fully understand your question: Thanks Peter, for not being sure what I was asking you certainly produced a damn fine set of directions! Sorry if I wasn't clear. I am pulling out the older/smaller hda and so wanted to move /var from it to the newer larger (though nearly full) hdb. > You seem to have another Linux partition hdb2, which seems not to be in > use. If you can use this partition as your new /var, it's even easier to > do (and a better solution). This new setup is only temporary as more hdd musical chairs will soon follow so I don't mind /var being on the mostly full hdb3 for now. hdb2 is a disabled /boot partition from some old/bad work done on this box....it's too small for /var I believe. I'm going to re-install 8.0 and clean this whole thing up but I need to move some data around first, and pull out this old hdd disk. I moved moved /var to hdb3 without a problem, and can run the box booting from the mbr on (the old) hda i.e. the smaller/older drive which I've been using up to now. I changed the 2 appearances of 'hdb*' to 'hda*' in fstab. After removing (the old) hda and not being able to boot I following your guidance and ran grub-install on (the new) hda to create a new mbr. It ran without error. Booting up I now reach the grub splash screen and choose to boot into linux. Then I get this: root (hd1,2) Error 21: Selected disk does not exist I'm getting to the grub screen so the mbr is in place properly right? Is this a problem with the grub's device.map?.....I'm guessing here. [nick@xxxxxxxxx grub]$ cat device.map # this device map was generated by anaconda (fd0) /dev/fd0 (hd0) /dev/hda (hd1) /dev/hdb I tried pointing hd0 to /dev/hda3 I tried pointing hd1 to hda then hda3 I tried removing the second line entirely as there is only one hdd. I'll be damned if I can figure out what the problem is. well, that's not quite true, I suspect that --I'M-- whats wrong with the system, but I'm sure what exactly the problem I'm causing is. Any further ideas would be greatly appreciated, thanks nick -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
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