Well thanks again. I have 4 gig of memory, so for now I will just go without swap.
--- On Wed, 2/10/10, Andrew Benton <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Andrew Benton <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Setting up /etc/fstab > To: [email protected] > Date: Wednesday, February 10, 2010, 4:59 PM > On 11/02/10 00:19, brown wrap wrote: > > But once I boot to the kernel I built > for LFS, won't LVM be out of the picture? I went into > gparted and I think I found the device that is swap, > > I think its /dev/sda2 and my '/' partition should be > /dev/sdc2. > > > > I was hoping to keep my Centos system and have the > option of booting to LFS. > > Is that possible? > > > The only way to know is to try it. For what it's worth, > it's not > essential for /etc/fstab to be perfect to boot. The kernel > mounts > whatever partition grub tells it to mount. If that > conflicts with > whatever is in fstab then the kernel ignores fstab. You > don't need a > swap partition to boot. You don't even need an fstab. It'll > be ugly, > some of the bootscripts will fail, but there's no reason > why it won't > boot to a command prompt and let you log in. > > Andy > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page > -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
