You are not logged in.
Hi all, I only have a single SSD in my laptop with the following setup (in order on disk):
sda1 - System Reserved
sda2 - Windows 8
sda4 - Extended Partition
sda5 - Arch 2 (this is where I'm trying to move my Arch install to)
sda3 - Arch (this is the one I can actually boot into
(unallocated space)
This is what I want things to look like eventually:
sda1 - System Reserved
sda2 - Windows 8
sda3 - Extended Partition
sda4 - Arch
sda5 - some other distro
sda6 - storage (I want this accessible by all OSes)
Here's how I think I'm going to do this:
- move Arch installation from after the extended partition to before it (since the extended partition is a big chunk of mostly free space, and I would like it to go last.
- after verifying that I can boot the Arch installation from the logical partition, delete the Arch installation on the primary partition and absorb the free space into the extended partition
Here's what I've done:
- used 'dd if=/dev/sda3 of=/dev/sda5 bs=4096 conv=notrunc,noerror' to clone my working Arch installation to the logical partition (sda5).
- ran 'grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg' to update GRUB and add the logical partition to the list of things to choose from in the Grub menu.
After running 'grub-mkconfig' nothing new was added to the menu.
Questions:
- Is what I want to do even possible?
- can I have the logical partition marked for storage be accessible to Windows 8?
- Is there an easier way to do what I want to do?
- How do I get GRUB to detect the logical partition?
- Is it possible to boot into a logical partition?
Offline
wiki shows: set root=lvm/lvm_group_name-lvm_logical_boot_partition_name here grub2
--------------------------------------
alcoves wonder creates the wonder unto the ages; never lose that.
Offline
grub doesn't always automatically pick up arch installations. Is os-prober installed? You can always add the entry manually e.g. in 40_custom or whatever. Don't forget to adjust fstab.
Just to be clear: you have an MBR formatted disk and are talking about traditional logical partitions, right? Not lvm?
Last edited by cfr (2013-02-02 01:31:48)
CLI Paste | How To Ask Questions
Arch Linux | x86_64 | GPT | EFI boot | refind | stub loader | systemd | LVM2 on LUKS
Lenovo x270 | Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7200U CPU @ 2.50GHz | Intel Wireless 8265/8275 | US keyboard w/ Euro | 512G NVMe INTEL SSDPEKKF512G7L
Offline
can I have the logical partition marked for storage be accessible to Windows 8?
Just pick a file system that Windows can read. NTFS is a safe choice though, if you prefer, you could format it as Ext2/3/4 and use a third-party utility to allow reading it.
Offline
scratch my last post a misunderstanding . have you tried adding to the arch partition with the boot flag.
--------------------------------------
alcoves wonder creates the wonder unto the ages; never lose that.
Offline
@cfr: you are correct, os-prober is installed, I have an MBR formatted disk, and traditional logical partitions. To add an OS to grub that resides in a logical partition would I have to do something with chain loading?
Offline