[TriLUG] Relocating Boot Partition - Slightly Munged

[Scott Chilcote]

Hi Folks,

I recently tried to set up a dual-boot system where Linux was completely 
installed on SCSI drives, and Windows was relegated to the system's IDE 
drive.  Unfortunately, grub didn't work properly in this configuration. 
  I'd get through the 1st stage of bootloading and the boot would hang. 
  I had to use a floppy to boot until I could make a boot partition for 
Linux on the system's IDE drive.

After a while I made a boot partition on the IDE drive and copied 
everything from the previous (SCSI) boot partition there.  I moved /boot 
to this location in /etc/fstab, did another grub-install, and this 
seemed to solve the problem.

Almost.  The system boots and runs fine, but for some reason, it refuses 
to shut down properly.  When I do a halt or reboot, it gets as far as 
stopping all of the processes and then hangs.  None of the partitions 
are unmounted, and the remainder of the shutdown sequence is suspended. 
  The kernel no longer responds, so it stays in this state until the 
power is cycled.

The system is still usable, but since the partitions are ext3 it has to 
restore from the journals every time I boot.  Very messy.

Is there a smarter way to make a new boot partition without having to go 
through the installation process?

Thanks,

Scott C.