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.

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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kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/0886... ro vga=773
initrd /boot/kernel26-fallback.img
edit: I'm able to access all of the installation partitions with gparted-live's terminal (by mounting the devices I need to access into folders in my root folder), so is there anything else you want me to check/change in order to find my linux root/boot partition?
Last edited by Bedtimes (2009-09-27 12:54:24)

I deleted the extra boot partition, will there be any problems with upgrading to Lion 10.7.2?

I have a Macbook 5,2, with a triple boot setup including Lion, Windows 7, and Ubuntu, managed by rEFIt. After upgrading from Snow Leopard, the Lion installer created a "boot partition" before my Windows partition, screwing up my mbr/gpt sync and making me unable to boot into the other operating systems. After many tries at other fixes, I deleted the boot partition after first copying its contents to an external HFS+ partition, and resized my Lion partition to include that space (although there is still a few hundred megabytes separating Lion and Windows).
Since the 10.7.2 release notes specifically mention changes to how the boot partition is accessed, I wanted to make sure, before upgrading, that it will not once again wreak havoc on my partition scheme by installing another boot partition or trying to modify the Windows partition thinking it is the missing boot partition. I think I read somewhere that in certain multi-boot setups, the Lion installer did not add the boot partition specifically to avoid the problems I was having; how do I make sure that I do not have them again?
Thanks.

You shouldn't have any issues, since Parallels v9 is the current version. You might want to visit the Parallels support forums to see if users there are aware of any issues. I know I upgraded my MBP from Mountain Lion to Mavericks and I had no issues with my Parallels v8. A short while after the update to Mavericks, I did upgrade my Parallels to v9, but I wasn't really having any problems on v8 either.

"/boot" partition not being mounted or used

I have my disk partitioned in 3 sections,
/dev/sdc1 "/boot"
/dev/sdc2 "swap"
/dev/sdc3 "/"
When i boot up it uses the "boot" folder mounted on /dev/sdc3 "/" named "boot" instead of "/dev/sdc1" which is supposed to be "/boot".
If I change it in fstab to mount /dev/sdc1 partition correctly as /boot, it boots from "/dev/sdc3"'s /boot instead, then loads /dev/sdc1 as "/boot" afterwards.
Any suggestions, it is hard to explain. hmm
Basicly, what do I need to do to make sure my /boot partition is being USED as the /boot ?

You need to tell GRUB (in /boot/grub/menu.lst) to use sdc1 as the "root", even though you pass "root=/dev/sdc3" on the kernel command line. If GRUB is itself looking in the wrong place for config files, you'll need to reinstall GRUB.

Boot/Partition Error

After partitioning my hard drive, first using Disk Utility and then GParted (to change the format of this new partition to something besides Mac Extended Journaled) and then an incomplete install of FreeBSD onto this new partition (note, the partition containing my OS X still worked fine until I began the actual installation of FreeBSD) my MacBook will not boot. Using ubuntu LiveCD, I was still able to mount the partition containing OS X and explore the file system, and all the files were still there; however, it seems the boot partition has some error with it, and also the OS X partition has lost whatever makes it able to be recognized by OS X's Disk Utility.
If I boot to the setup DVD for Leopard, the Disk Utility does not even recognize that there is a valid Mac (hfs+) formatted partition on the hard drive, though it can find a second partition which should be listed as unallocated space.
Is there any way to simply fix the boot partition and make the valid hfs+ partition recognized again without formatting and making a clean install?

I have the rEFIt boot utility installed, which blocks the automatic EFI boot of OS X and allows you to choose boot options. Apparently, the problem with the boot partition was that it wanted something to be in the unallocated space (the mysterious second partition) when there wasn't anything. I just did a basic install of ubuntu Linux onto the free space (giving it a partition and OS where it wanted one) and everything works fine again.

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