Re: Editing bootdisk

[Niels Andersen]

On Saturday 20 April 2002 08:46, you wrote:
>       # dd if=partboot.img of=fs.gz bs=1k skip=X
[...]
> X is the offset of the init ram disk.  Linux will say this when the
> bootdisk boots... "found initrd at offset X", or something similar.

Great! Exactly what I needed! :)

[...]
> > Using parted, it will resize that image so it uses the entire hd.
> Just a matter of writing a shell script, and playing with /etc/inittab,
> or whatever.

Yep, and I'm getting pretty far by now. :)
but I have a problem with that last step...

I do something like this:
parted -s /dev/hda print | grep -e '^Disk geometry for'
and then I use sed to find the end of the range.

Then I try to resize using that value, something like this:
parted -s /dev/hda resize 1 0 %MAX
But then it just complains that I'm trying to make the partition larger than 
the disk. And then I'm stuck...

-- 
Mvh.

Niels Andersen