Re: Always falling to grub prompt

[Victor Munoz <vmunoz@macul.ciencias.uchile.cl>]

On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 02:12:19PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> 
> yup. probably up until now you've always had this problem, but the
> kernels happened to be written within the first 1024 cylinders and
> thus caused no problem. Also, the same with menu.lst, it was probably
> within that boundary as well. Then last week, the menu.lst got
> rewritten to a part of the disk that the bios can't see and suddenly
> doesn't work. 
> 
> At least that's the way I understand it. Reality may diverge
> drastically from my perception. ;)
> 

Sounds very logical, so it must be true :-) Anyway, is there anyway to
make a nondestructive repartition? I'm aware gparted can resize
partitions, for instance, but in this case I need to split one big
partition into two, and I'm afraid I can't do it in a safe way, right?

Victor