Hello,

I run a dual-boot Antix M7.2. and windows 2000 on my laptop. I have created a 200 MB partition on sda called sda2 and would like to know what files I have to transfer to it and how to configure the Grub to obtain an independent boot partition.

Windows is installed on sda1
My future boot on sda2
my root on sda3
and the swap on sda4.

Thank you for any advise.

I think you need everything under /boot and you will have to reinstall grub as well for it to work if your not going to do it from a fresh install.

As eriefisher wrote, to create an independent boot partition I had to move the hole /boot directory to sda2 and reinstall grub.

To do so, as root, I had to mount sda2 :

# mount -t ext3 /dev/sda2 /mnt/sda2

Move the /boot directory to /mnt/sda2

Access the grub shell :

# grub

This takes a few minutes to access and issues :

grub>

As I had moved the grub installation to a different partition by moving my /boot to sda2, I had to ask the grub to find out on which partition it was installed :

grub> find /boot/grub/stage1

It returns the number of the partition in which Grub locates its installation files. In my case :

grub> find /boot/grub/stage1
(hd0,1)

For the grub hd0,1 is equivalent to sda2.

Before reinstalling Grub, I had to notify to him that my grub resided in the hd0,1 partition by typing the command :

grub> root (hd0,1)

Finally to reinstall grub in the MBR I had to set it up on sda without indicating the number part :

grub> setup (hd0)

Exit the grub-shell prompt using “Ctrl+c”.

As I also moved the kernel by moving the /boot directory I had to edit the /mnt/sda2/boot/grub/menu.lst file and correct the partition indications to (hd0,1)