Spilled the Beans
Ok Ill try that when I get home tonight, am I supposed to run gdisk on all of the drives or just disk3 (disk3 =sdd?)? Also I don't have much experience with gparted, I'm assuming BIOS boot partition will be an available partition format after the linux partition is shrunk?
Last edited by Fasopus; June 22nd, 2011 at 12:15 PM.
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I recommend doing it on /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, and /dev/sdd; but at the very least, do it on /dev/sdd.Originally Posted by Fasopus
In GParted, you create a BIOS Boot Partition by creating a partition without a filesystem and then setting the "bios_grub" flag on it. In gdisk, you create one by creating a partition and giving it a type code of EF02.Also I don't have much experience with gparted, I'm assuming BIOS boot partition will be an available partition format after the linux partition is shrunk?
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So I've completed all the above steps, but after I discover my install in the GRUB2 disk and attempt to launch it I get an error saying /dev/disk/by-uuid/xxxx.... does not exist, dropping to a shell.
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It's possible to re-install GRUB in other ways. One is to use the Ubuntu installer in its "live CD" mode, as described here, among other places. (In your case, though, fdisk will be useless. You already know your installation is on /dev/sdd1, so you don't need to use fdisk to learn that.)
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I booted into the live CD but when I attempt to mount my partition with
I get an error along the lines of special device does not exist or cannot be foundCode:sudo mount /dev/sdd1 /mnt
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Please boot the live CD and run the Boot Info Script again. Something may have gone wrong to cause you to lose partitioning data. (If so, don't worry; your original Boot Info Script output is detailed enough that you can recover your original partitions.)
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