OK. The Chief Idiot is going to experiment some. You ALL know what
this means right? Yep, I'm about to really make a mess of things so
here comes some questions. This is a result of the /usr and udev crap.
So, go to -dev and blame them, not me. ;-)
OK. I have three drives in my rig. One is for data files, mounted on
/data ironically, and has nothing to do with the OS. So, for that
reason I'm going to leave it out of this. So, I now have two drives in
my rig that are about to be OS related. sda is a 160Gb and sdb is a
250Gb. I'm going to leave the first one, sda, as is and will use sdb
for testing. Before I start, I want to sort of get my brain wrapped
back around this. It has been a LONG time since I dual booted Linux and
that was only for a month or so. I have grub installed on the MBR of
sda. My boot partition is on sda1 like most likely 99% of the rest of
you and it will stay there even after all this is done. I got /boot
from the old handbook days. When I put my new install on sdb, with this
new initramfs thingy and quite possibly LVM, do I leave grub on sda's
MBR and just point to sdb for the kernel and init thingy and all will be
well?
If this all works out, I will be moving everything from sdb to sda
anyway. My plan is to get them both bootable, then use one to copy to
another after I have learned a bit about this mess. I haven't got that
far yet but wanting to figure this init thingy out before I'm forced to
which will only make it taste even worse.
What I am reading so far:
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Initramfs
I did a google search and found some others boot this is more Gentoo
oriented. So, anything wrong with this as a guide? Pointers to others
if they are better would be great.
Here starts a learning process. It could get bumpy. lol
Dale
:-) :-)
