2007/4/12, Jerry Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 23:19:50 -0400
"Ciro Iriarte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Is it possible, yes if you can boot from a pen drive.
> > I would certainly not do that..
> > first, on a hard drive, the boot sector contains a physical address of
> > the stage1 boot code. The boot process then loads stage1. Stage1 then
> > loads the specific stage1 for the file system (eg. e2fs_stage1_5) which
> > then loads /boot/grub/stage2. stage2 then reads the menu.lst (or
> > grub.conf) and presents the boot menu etc. Since pendrives are normally
> > FAT devices, the boot should work, but I would not recommend it. I
> > think you are better off simply setting up a small /boot partition. You
> > can easily back that up to a pen drive and you can easily boot a
> > rescue CD.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Jerry Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Hi, why wouldn't you use it?, i barely poweroff that pc, so i wont
> really stress the pen drive.... And the last time i checked, grub
> didn't support /boot on raid5, that's why i would like to avoid
> installing on the HDD. The problem, i think, would be to mount the
> pendrive on /boot at the installation stage...
Why not try it on an existing system. Mount the Pen Drive, run YaST to
install Grub. Make sure that system can boot from a pen drive. Then
boot the system. I'm sure it will work, but the boot will be much
slower. I can't think of a reason it won't work.
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Jerry Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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It can work on an already running system, but i'm looking to replace a
RAID1 (2x250GB) with a RAID5 (3x500GB) and use just one partition for
md0, i'll need to to mount the pendrive as /boot on the system
installation and probably that's not an option with yast...
Ciro
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