Move /boot directory

Bruno Costacurta cd1 at biz.tiscali.be
Tue Nov 29 21:00:00 UTC 2005


On Tuesday 29 November 2005 13:15, James Wilkinson wrote:
> waaa4805 wrote:
> > Hell,
>
> Oh dear. Is it that bad?
>
> > related to a new partitions / disk configuration I would like to move
> > /boot directory. My system use grub.
> >
> > I intend to :
> >
> > - copy current /boot to the new partition with /boot as mount point
> > - within grub 'install (hd0,0)' as first drive + first partition
> > correspond to the new /boot.
> > - within grub 'setup (hd0)'
> > - moving previous /boot to a backup place
> > - hopefully booting...
> >
> > Is that correct and suffisant ?
>
> Don't forget to edit /etc/fstab to mount the new /boot.
>
> Don't forget to leave a /boot directory on the / filesystem (which
> should probably be empty) on which Linux can mount the new /boot.
>
> Don't forget to check you can use a rescue disc to get into Fedora
> *before* playing with any of this.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> James.
> --
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>
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Thanks a lot to everybody. The move is finished and everything works fine.

James, 'Hell' should be read 'Hello'. 
There is no hell in Linux :-)

Bruno




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