[CentOS] HELP, I accidentally initialized my /boot partition
Ross S. W. Walker
rwalker at medallion.com
Mon Aug 20 19:40:13 UTC 2007
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> From: centos-bounces at centos.org
> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Alfred von Campe
> Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 3:24 PM
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> Subject: [CentOS] HELP, I accidentally initialized my /boot partition
>
> So I installed a second drive in my system today, and instead of
> typing "mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1" I did a "mkfs.ext3 /dev/hda1".
> Fortunately, that was just my /boot partition. I thought I could
> just copy the contents from the /boot partition from another system,
> but that didn't work as expected. The again, I don't have another
> system that's identical to the mine.
>
> What is the best way to re-create the /boot partition for my system?
Just re-install the current kernel and grub with an rpm -Uvh --force.
initrd images are auto-generated and grub should probe your disk layout
and put some best-guess entries in there.
Just edit menu.lst and fix the entries.
-Ross
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