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splippity

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Registered: 2010-05-25

Posts: 144

[Solved] Deleting a distro from hd and modifying grub

well I currently have sabayon and windows 7 on my hd along with arch.
I used sabayon and grub2 to handle my bootloader.
Would it be as simple as deleting the partition with sabayon and then using arch with grub to modify the grub.cfg ??????
my sabayon install is useless to me at this point since I havent used it in months and then when I decided to just so it would be up to date it doesnt even update anymore.
thanks

Last edited by splippity (2010-10-15 00:14:55)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: [Solved] Deleting a distro from hd and modifying grub

Yes, it should be as simple as that. You can leave the partition as separate or merge with an existing one if you like.

splippity

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Registered: 2010-05-25

Posts: 144

Re: [Solved] Deleting a distro from hd and modifying grub

yeah I was planning on merging it into my arch partition. I actually use the bulk of my hd for storage (ntfs) but since I very very rarely even boot into windows 7 anymore and I dont think its very efficient for the system to load ntfs-3g all of the time as opposed to just writing to ext4 I might even get away from that storage partition.
Maybe shrink it and then expand ext4 partition or something like that.

splippity

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Registered: 2010-05-25

Posts: 144

Re: [Solved] Deleting a distro from hd and modifying grub

so the commands I used on sabayon for grub2 were:

grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

grub2-install /dev/sda

now /dev/sda would refer to mbr or something?????
since I open gparted:

 sda1 is ntfs system reserved 100 mb
sda2 is ntfs 40gb (win7)

then theres unallocated 5.73 mb
sda3 40gb EXT4 (sabayon)
sda4 (extended)
sda5 swap
sda7 ext4 (arch)
sda6 ntfs backup partition
then another unallocated 2.49 mb

just making sure before I mess something up lol.