Change Grub & Move Install To Different Partition [SOLVED]

[BeepBeep]

I have a dual Karmic boot. The first partition has Kubuntu x64 Karmic and the 2nd partition has Xubuntu x64 Karmic.

My question is in 2 parts.

(1) I want to remove the Kubuntu partition and need to know how can I get the Xubuntu grub to load as right now it is the Kubuntu grub loader that starts up and chain loads the Xubuntu.

(2) How can I move the entire Xubuntu install from /dev/sda2 to /dev/sda1 where Kubuntu is currently installed? Both partitions are of the same size and EXT4.

[verndog]

Re: Change Grub & Move Install To Different Partition

Depending on the task at hand, what is your experience level?

I would do (2) first. You could boot using partimage and use the gparted to move the partitions sda2 to sda1 as long as your going from a smaller partitions to a larger. There are other means to accomplish this. 'dd' for one.

Once its move you need to know your UUID's. They will be the same if using gparted. that needs addressing. One way 'sudo tune2fs -U random /dev/sdaX' for changing the desired partition.

[BeepBeep]

Re: Change Grub & Move Install To Different Partition

Depending on the task at hand, what is your experience level?

Pretty good; 30 yrs of Snr. Level IT and 3 yrs of Linux.

[verndog]

Re: Change Grub & Move Install To Different Partition

Once you get the partitions squared away , you can chroot into xubuntu and update grub. as follows:

# copy 7 commands below then paste:
sudo mount /dev/sdaX /mnt/
sudo mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev
sudo mount --bind /proc /mnt/proc
sudo mount --bind /sys /mnt/sys
sudo mount --bind /dev/pts /mnt/dev/pts
sudo mount -o bind /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/etc/resolv.conf
sudo chroot /mnt/ /bin/bash
=============
Remove CHROOT
=============
# Ctrl+d to exit chroot,
# copy 6 commands below then paste.
sudo umount /mnt/etc/resolv.conf
sudo umount /mnt/dev/pts
sudo umount /mnt/sys
sudo umount /mnt/proc
sudo umount /mnt/dev
sudo umount /mnt

Then depending on what grub your dealing with do an 'grub-install /dev/sda'
then update-grub to capture your OS's.

[BeepBeep]

Re: Change Grub & Move Install To Different Partition

Thanks.

Meanwhile I made a deb file of all installed SW, re-installed Xubuntu in /dev/sda1 and then loaded the SW via the deb file.