[ale] SystemRescueCD got only one shot!

[Jim Popovitch]

Hi John,

I'm not sure if this helps, but when I want to shrink a PC partition, I 
use the Debian net-install image (http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/) 
which includes parted.  Just pretend you are doing an install, and then 
select the existing identified partition and simply change it's size (up 
or down).  No mess, no command-line parameters, nothing but a pretty 
curses gui.  After you change the partitions you can cancel the Debian 
install and go back to what you were doing.

hth,

-Jim P.

Mills, John M. wrote:
> ALErs -
> 
> I just used 'systemrescuecd-0.2.15' and 'ntfsresize-1.9.2' to shrink a
> laptop's XP-home filesystem down to 10 Gby. All went fine including
> post-shrinkage file checks and reboots by XP. XP now boots cleanly and comes
> up fine,
>                                  ... BUT ...
> my SystemRescueCD _WILL_NOT_BOOT again. All looks OK, up until:
> 
> * Starting USB and PCI hotplugging
> Oops: 0000
>  ... Yadada yadada ...
> /etc/hotplug/pci.agent: line 173:  Segmentation fault ...
> (7)eth0: no IPv6 routers present
> 
> My first (well, second) thought* was that ill-luck had damaged my CD copy,
> so I made a fresh one. It crashes identically to the first. Knoppix boots
> fine.
> 
> * My _first_ thought was really: "$%^&#@*!!! ???"
> 
> Any idea what's happening here? I'm going to install Linux - probably
> SuSe-9.3 - so this isn't necessarily a show-stopper (esp. since WinXP seems
> to run as well as ever ;-), but
> I would like to know what's going on!
> 
> TIA.
> 
>  - Mills
> 
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