brentrubeck
May 12th, 2009, 03:11 PM
Hello, I think I have kind of figured out how to get rid of my solaris partition, but I would like to run it by someone before I attempt it. From the results of fdisk it looks like the boot flag was set to the solaris partition and that the /boot partition that was originally put on my machine hasn't been touched too much (I've had to go in to it and delete older kernels and change the menu.lst on the solaris partition).
So here's the big question can I configure grub from a linux partition and restore the backed up copy of my menu.lst and then reboot? The results of find /boot/grub/stage1 on the linux partition were (hd0,6). Also will I need to fdisk from a live CD and set a new boot flag for /boot or will grub handle that stuff? Thanks
First here's a list of my partitions (fdisk results are below):
sda1 - Windows partition
sda2 - Original boot partition
sda3 - Solaris Partition
sda5 - Personal Linux partition
sda6 - Swap
sda7 - Linux partition used for development
sda8 - Shared space
Here's results of the fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x3b40849d
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 1567 12586896 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 1568 1580 104422+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 * 1581 3492 15358140 bf Solaris
/dev/sda4 3493 30401 216146542+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 3493 5520 16289878+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 7433 7687 2048256 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7 5521 7432 15358108+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 7688 30401 182450173+ 83 Linux
So here's the big question can I configure grub from a linux partition and restore the backed up copy of my menu.lst and then reboot? The results of find /boot/grub/stage1 on the linux partition were (hd0,6). Also will I need to fdisk from a live CD and set a new boot flag for /boot or will grub handle that stuff? Thanks
First here's a list of my partitions (fdisk results are below):
sda1 - Windows partition
sda2 - Original boot partition
sda3 - Solaris Partition
sda5 - Personal Linux partition
sda6 - Swap
sda7 - Linux partition used for development
sda8 - Shared space
Here's results of the fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x3b40849d
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 1567 12586896 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 1568 1580 104422+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 * 1581 3492 15358140 bf Solaris
/dev/sda4 3493 30401 216146542+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 3493 5520 16289878+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 7433 7687 2048256 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7 5521 7432 15358108+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 7688 30401 182450173+ 83 Linux