Hi Wei, if you resize and then add another partition, your boot loader will not know about the changes. the boot loader will use the info it has until you update it. With LILO, to update your boot loader, you need to do: lilo -v after you edit the /etc/lilo.conf file. But when you use your program to resizes your partition, it will tell you what the number will be. =K On Fri, 2003-05-23 at 18:32, Wei Wang wrote: > Hi, all, > > In order to enable hibernation for linux on my laptop, I have > to prepare the second primary partition to be > an empty 1gig-sized formatted FAT16 partition for hibernation. For > short, Debian is on hda 5 at the moment. If I divide > the first partition into two partitions, does that mean hda5 will be > hda6 instead and MBR would still boot > on hda5 and Debian wouldn't boot at all? > > > > Here is the long version. > > The problem is that I have Windows XP > at hda1 and Debian at hda5. Now since the way I partitioned my > harddisk is that I have one primary > NTFS partition(hda1 with XP on it) and one extended primary parition > (which has 4 logical partitions on it > and Debian is on one of them). Now in partition magic 8 I cannot > resize the extended primary partition(maybe because > > > So I'm left with 2 choices: > > Resize the first primary partition. (Which leads to my question as > whether it would cause MBR boot at the wrong partition?) > > Destroy everything on my second primary partition. So I get everything > I want, only have to reinstall Debian again. ;-( > > Please advise, > > Thanks, > > Wei -- Kevin Mark <kmark@pipeline.com>
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