lev5c
November 6th, 2008, 03:42 AM
My intentions were to reinstall/upgrade to 8.1 in order to restore all default ubuntu settings (ATI drivers & video playback in particular :evil:), but keep data across all partitions. Now, I'm afraid I've screwed up the main linux partition in the process.
Here's what went down:
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1. Booted from 8.10 LTS Live CD
2. Chose "Manual" hard drive partitioning
It displayed the following: (sizes are approx)
/dev/sda1 ext2 53gb 17gb used
unallocated 1gb
/dev/sda2 linux-swap 2gb ?
/dev/sda3 ntfs 60gb 52gb used
/dev/sda4 ntfs 40gb 37gb used
3. Resized sda1 to 25GiB
It did what I told it to do by unallocating space, I just assumed it would unallocate the 35 or so gigs of free space. Now, I can't boot cuz I'm getting a GRUB error 15: file not found. So, I rebooted with the Live CD and ran partition manager.
This is the current state: (sizes are approx)
/dev/sda1 ext2 23gb 375Mb used
unallocated 32gb
/dev/sda2 linux-swap 2gb ?
/dev/sda3 ntfs 60gb 52gb used
/dev/sda4 ntfs 40gb 37gb used
I tried the "undo changes to partitions" option to no avail, and that's exactly what I need to do. Been surfin' forums all day. Any help is appreciated. [-o<
Here's what went down:
------------------------------------------------
1. Booted from 8.10 LTS Live CD
2. Chose "Manual" hard drive partitioning
It displayed the following: (sizes are approx)
/dev/sda1 ext2 53gb 17gb used
unallocated 1gb
/dev/sda2 linux-swap 2gb ?
/dev/sda3 ntfs 60gb 52gb used
/dev/sda4 ntfs 40gb 37gb used
3. Resized sda1 to 25GiB
It did what I told it to do by unallocating space, I just assumed it would unallocate the 35 or so gigs of free space. Now, I can't boot cuz I'm getting a GRUB error 15: file not found. So, I rebooted with the Live CD and ran partition manager.
This is the current state: (sizes are approx)
/dev/sda1 ext2 23gb 375Mb used
unallocated 32gb
/dev/sda2 linux-swap 2gb ?
/dev/sda3 ntfs 60gb 52gb used
/dev/sda4 ntfs 40gb 37gb used
I tried the "undo changes to partitions" option to no avail, and that's exactly what I need to do. Been surfin' forums all day. Any help is appreciated. [-o<