On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 02:15:50 -0400 "Ciro Iriarte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. > > -- > > Jerry Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Boston Linux and Unix user group > > http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 > > PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9 > > > > > > 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... Why should it not be an option. It is a valid drive. -- Jerry Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9
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