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Kidfork

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From: Massachusetts

Registered: 2010-11-24

Posts: 29

Change Boot Partition?

Alright so when I first installed Arch I went through a couple of roadbumps and didn't end up making seperate partition, I was wondering how I could go about doing this? My current boot files are on my root partition.

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graysky

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Re: Change Boot Partition?

Make a new partition for boot, mount it somewhere (/mnt) and copy over your /boot to it via cp -a /boot /mnt for example.  Now edit your /etc/fstab pointing it to the separate partition for /boot.  Unmount /mnt and mount /boot which should cover it.  You can delete the files on the unmounted /boot once you know it works.  You'll have to update grub as well and your /boot/grub/menu.lst to reflect the need root (hdx,y) and remove the /boot prefix for your entries.

Last edited by graysky (2010-11-24 18:32:41)

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Kidfork

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From: Massachusetts

Registered: 2010-11-24

Posts: 29

Re: Change Boot Partition?

Awesome! Thank You Very Much!

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16-Year Old Linux User
Arch Linux AMD64, 4GB DDR2, 320HDD 2.7 Pentium Dual, Geforce 9500 GT
Former Ubuntu/Windows User