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Moving /boot to it's own partition

  • 17-10-2008 10:57PM
    #1
    Tillotson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 218 ✭✭


    Hopefully somebody can answer this

    I have vista and ubuntu installed and I would like to install Archlinux. When I installed ubuntu i didn't make a /boot partition

    <code> fdisk -lu </code>

    Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
    255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
    Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
    Disk identifier: 0xf83bff4b

    Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
    /dev/sda1 * 2048 758386071 379192012 7 HPFS/NTFS
    /dev/sda2 758396520 799024904 20314192+ 83 Linux /dev/sda3 947481570 976768064 14643247+ 83 Linux /dev/sda4 799024905 947481569 74228332+ 5 Extended
    /dev/sda5 935754120 947481569 5863725 82 Linux swap / Solaris
    /dev/sda6 799025031 935754119 68364544+ 83 Linux

    I'm after creating a primary partition /dev/sda3 for ArchLinux

    I'm thinking of making another partition ~100MB specifically for /boot?
    Can I copy the contents from /boot in my ubuntu filesystem?
    What changes do I have to make to the grub menu.lst?
    How will this affect booting into vista?


    There must be a simpler, more elegant solution (not virtualisation):)


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