Swapping the number of 2 partitions

[jd1008]

On 10/16/2014 11:12 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 16Oct2014 22:44, jd1008 <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Could you explain _why_ you want to renumber the partitions? Does
>>> something have a hardwired desire to use "partition 1" or something?
>>
>> I think I need to do it because the windows partition for some reason
>> will not boot as partition 2 even though the boot.ini was edited to look
>> in partition 2  instead of partition 2.
>>
>> So, I restored boot.init to look into partition 1, and then I will 
>> try to boot windows
>> from the grub2 menu (which I have also edited to look into msdos1 
>> instead of msdos2.
>>
>> Not sure it will work, but worth a try.
>> I might save me a reinstall.
>
> Don't forget to keep a copy of the partition table dump file when you 
> dump it with sfdisk. That way if there is some disaster in your edit 
> you can put the original back.
>
> And don't forget that sfdisk is terribly easy to misuse. I always 
> quake with fear of overwriting the partition table instead of dumping 
> it. Read the manual entry carefully (it has examples, and this same 
> warning) and ensure you have the command line options right.
>
> Nonetheless, it is still terrible useful.
Thanx. Good advice.

>
> Cheers,
> Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au>
>
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