<div>Scott:</div>
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<div>I resized using gparted and not the vmware utility to do so. You got a point. I should do so.</div>
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<div>David:</div>
<div>I did not install a boot loader on the disk. I thougt if the only os is Linux a boot loader is not needed.</div>
<div>Can you please provide a bit clarification so I can do so ?</div>
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<div>-Narahari<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 1:16 PM, David Tomaschik <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david@systemoverlord.com">david@systemoverlord.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">Did you install a bootloader on the disk before expecting to be able<br>to boot from it?<br><br>David<br>
<div class="im"><br><br>On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Narahari 'n' Savitha<br><<a href="mailto:savithari@gmail.com">savithari@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div>
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<div class="h5">> Friends:<br>><br>> I have a working Ubuntu 64 bit inside Guest in a Windoze7 host env.<br>><br>> It was originally at 40gb all working fine.<br>><br>> I have since then resized it to 18gb (dont need 40gb) and then I created<br>
> another disk of 20 gb.<br>><br>> I then used gparted and copied the parition from the 18gb to this new disk.<br>><br>> I marked the new disk as bootable with the flags options of gparted. I<br>> removed the 18gb drive.<br>
><br>> When I connected the new drive by itself and restarted the machine, I am<br>> seeing blank screen.<br>><br>> Any ideas would help.<br>><br>> -Narahari<br>><br></div></div>
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