A few weeks ago, I mentioned how I wanted to install a new distribution of Linux, called Sidux, on my home fileserver. See the post “Moving To Sidux, Part 2“. At that time the Sidux installation still didn’t work.

I’d found that I had to make space at the start of my 200Gb drive as Grub couldn’t see the boot information due to bios limitations. The boot info was beyond the bios limit of 170Gb.

Well, after moving the old Kanotix /home partition further up the drive to create space for two new partitions at the beginning, I met another problem to fix.

Booting my new Sidux installation, now at the start of the drive, failed again for a different reason. It turned out that the partition table of that drive was no longer in order.

The old home partion labelled hdb1 was now at the end of the drive, and had two other partition, hdb2 and hdb3 before it in the physical layout. Grub or something else in the boot process didn’t like that and Sidux refused to start.

I found the solution, thanks to advice at WebServerTalk.com, was to rewrite the partion table so that the partitions were listed in order from hdb1 to hdb3. By booting from the live Sidux CD (another advantage of Sidux), I could edit the partition table and I now have a fully functioning Sidux installation.

It only remained to ensure everything was OK with my old Kanotix boot, by editing it’s fstab to point it’s old /home to it’s new partition name of hdb3 .