hbrhodes wrote: > Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > >> Now, as far as the USB image goes, one thing you can try is to >> reformat and re-partition the pen drive so it has one FAT16 >> partition. Then try writing the USB boot image to the FAT16 >> partition instead of the entire drive. I did that here, and it >> booted fine. If your pen drive is sda, then you would do something >> like "dd if=/dev/bootdisk.img of=/dev/sda1". See if your system >> likes that better. >> >> Mikkel >> >> > do you know if i can chroot to /dev/sda1 and unmount the original > system? i need to resize2fs the original system to expand the LVM and > it won't let me while / is mounted at boot time. Really what i could > use is a way to have grub boot to the sda1 partition ... > Not with the USB install image. It does not have a root file system on it. It is boot image designed to boot the install kernel and ramdisk image. > The really important thing i need to do is get around mounting the main > hard drive, so i can resize2fs the main drive. the computer does not > have a cd-rom, just four hard drives (eide kind). so i'm going to try > the grub.conf file and try editing it.... but i don't have any > experience with it really. OR, if i can use GRUB to boot into a folder > on the other computer so i can reinstall. though i would rather resize > ... hehe ... > You may want to look at something like the System Rescue CD that can be made into a pen drive system instead of a CD. http://www.sysresccd.org/ I am not sure it has the tools you need, but it is worth a look. It does have documentation on how to put it on a "USB-stick". You will need at least 128 meg. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
