[gentoo-user] remote installation, dual boot

2015-04-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
I plan to install a fresh gentoo linux in parallel to an existing SLES 10 server. The server runs with /boot and / on 2 raid1 devices, there is a large RAID6 array building the PV for several logical volumes with data on it. The idea is to have the server booted from live media (chroot does not

Re: [gentoo-user] remote installation, dual boot

2015-04-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 23.04.2015 17:09, Mike Gilbert wrote: Some pointers: - Unpack your stage tarball. - Build the kernel and initramfs on an existing Gentoo system and copy them over. - Add the gentoo kernel and initramfs to menu.lst. - Clear out the root password in /etc/shadow. - Reboot the box. You

Re: [gentoo-user] remote installation, dual boot

2015-04-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 23.04.2015 17:43, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: I will see if I get that figured out ... got to get the kernel-options and dracut modules right. first try started booting but couldn't mount rootfs ... and now the box hangs there and I can't press the power button (only PS/2 attached

Re: [gentoo-user] remote installation, dual boot

2015-04-23 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: I plan to install a fresh gentoo linux in parallel to an existing SLES 10 server. The server runs with /boot and / on 2 raid1 devices, there is a large RAID6 array building the PV for several logical volumes with