Re: legacy grub missed partition

[Jan Stefan]

 

>On 2010/03/09 10:42 (GMT-0600) Jan Stefan composed:

 

>> The Inode size was the problem. The first small partition defaulted to

>> a

>> 128 byte Inode and worked with grub. The larger partition defaulted to

>> 256 bytes and grub did not see it.

 

>> I chose to change the Inode size with the mkfs.ext3 command rather

>> than update grub.

 

On 2010/03/09 Felix Miata wrote:  

> Change how? Do you mean recreate the filesystem, or some way to convert to

> 128 byte inode size on existing filesystem without losing files or data?

 

My main goal was to write a procedure to duplicate my working Linux software

on a second PC. I already had a tared version of my partition data from the

first PC so destroying the partition data was not a problem.  

 

I recreated the filesystem with the command “mkfs.ext3 –I 128 /dev/sda2”.

I then untared my filesystem archive into the partition.

 

The legacy Grub “find” command could then find files in (hd0,1), as expected,

and menu.lst in the first partition could boot a Linux kernel in partition two.

 

Again thanks for the help,

 

Jan