/dev/hda3 is the backup/rescue. What I did last time I built a system, is used this to build a working system. Put it into service, adjust/configure until I am happy. Create the LVM in prep for the main install. Copy the rescue system to the LVM and setup grub. reboot into the main and go from there. The original is then available as a backup. Unless a severe security vul exists, I dont fiddle with it until a major kernel update occurs.
Grub is: ____________________________________ default 0 fallback 2 timeout 5 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz configfile=(hd0,0)/grub/grub.conf title=Gentoo Sources (2.6.13-r7) resume root (hd0,0) kernel (hd0,0)/linux-2.6.13-rc7 root=/dev/hda5 splash=verbose vga=0x317 elevator=cfq gentoo=nodevfs resume2=swap:/dev/hda2 title=Gentoo Sources (2.6.13-r7) NOresume root (hd0,0) kernel (hd0,0)/linux-2.6.13-rc7 root=/dev/hda5 splash=verbose vga=0x317 elevator=cfq gentoo=nodevfs resume2=swap:/dev/hda2 noresume ... title=Gentoo Sources (2.6.11-r9) RESCUE root (hd0,0) kernel (hd0,0)/linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r9 root=/dev/hda3 splash=verbose elevator=cfq gentoo=nodevfs resume2=swap:/dev/hda2 noresume __________________________________ I am using a patched for suspend2 kernel (vanilla here, but gentoo sources when its available. I do not use genkernel: it has caused me too many problems in the past. BillK On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 21:28 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > On 8/29/05, W.Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My scheme is: ... > > Thanks Bill, > That's very helpful. To test my understanding > > /dev/hda1 - boot - 100M > /dev/hda2 - swap - 2G > /dev/hda3 - NOT CLEAR - the backup/rescue install? > /dev/hda4 - LVM - 200G > /dev/hda5 - root - 4G > > So you've placed pretty much the bulk of the machine in LVM and it's > working well for you. That's cool. > > Could you possibly share a bit from your grub.conf file as well as > your fstab file? I think with that info I'd be pretty confident when I > do the build tomorrow morning. > > Thanks, > Mark > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
