[RESOLVED] Rearranging Hard Disks -- (with Windows 7 and Arch)

kevr · 2011-02-10 23:00:23

Hey guys. I've run into a bit of a problem, well not too horrific of a problem but it'd be nice to get it fixed up. Originally on Arch, I had installed with 4 primary partitions: /dev/sda1 as /boot, /dev/sda2 as / (root), /dev/sda3 as /home, and /dev/sda4 as swap. I recently installed Windows 7, which forced a primary partition out of me so I deleted the swap and formatted it for Windows 7. I have 3.30GB of space left over at the end.. I was saving it for swap after the Windows 7. But I can't seem to get /dev/sda1 to correctly extend for me so I can setup a 230MB /boot and a 3GB swap as logical.

The layout:
/dev/sda1 /boot ext3
/dev/sda2 / ext3
/dev/sda3 /home ext3
/dev/sda4 HPS/NTFS Windows 7
3.30GB unallocated

I just tried deleting /dev/sda1 /boot with files backed up, and turned /dev/sda1 into extended, then created a /boot and swap as logical - but when I tried to reboot it gave me a Grub error 17. Yes, I changed the fstab mounts and menu.lst entries as needed, but it still gave me the error. Weirdly, I couldn't setup /dev/sda1 as a primary ext3 boot with enough space after that - but then I rebooted into the arch live cd again and it allowed me to set it up (weirdly, after I reformatted /dev/sda1 /boot through fdisk, all the files were restored as originally by themselves.)

If anyone has any ideas, they're greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time Arch community.

Edit: Apparently I had to grub-install outside of chroot on the livecd, sorry for anyone who wasted their time reading this. It's been resolved. Thank you anyways

Last edited by kevr (2011-02-10 23:14:34)

mandog · 2011-02-14 08:07:07

You can not an extended partition with existing partitions after it so you need to start again also win7 is always better on the 1st partition and need 2 partitions 100mb for boot then 40/50gb min for win7 use the rest as extended the you can put as many other partitions as you wish.

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#1 2011-02-10 23:00:23

[RESOLVED] Rearranging Hard Disks -- (with Windows 7 and Arch)

#2 2011-02-14 08:07:07

Re: [RESOLVED] Rearranging Hard Disks -- (with Windows 7 and Arch)

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