> From: "Tim Moody" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I took a much less heroic approach to getting a dual boot XS and other Linux > machine. I put two drives in the box and installed linux on the second. I > then disconnected the ribbon cable from that drive and did a livecd install > of xs 163 (which doesn't allow any partitioning). Now I can re-connect the > second drive and fix up grub to be dual boot. This doesn't address the raid > issue.
> I'd also be happy to compare notes on Moodle + Postgre. Tim, Thanks. Yes, a friend came over to help, and we figured out the various problems I was having. The original request had a list of "must haves" and "nice to haves" ( http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Educational_Blogger_Project ) We need 1. A box and someone to image it with XS code (Tony) 2. A primary sys admin and support for them (Marcel) 3. An IP address, BW and a hosting location (Glen) Must haves: Ethernet configured for connection to Internet Accessible from XO laptops in Uruguay via HTTP Remote administration through SSH/FTP XS Software stack with web server, database, and utilities Recover CDs or DVDs Nice to haves: Alternative OS such as Debian 4.0-r3 Etch with Dual-boot option and Grub loader Alternative databases (MySQL versus PostgreSQL) Logical Volume Manager (LVM2) RAID-1 configuration between the two SATA disks Backup through Mondo Rescue, SysRescueCD, Partimage, or similar KVM virtualization that would allow other images to run as Linux guests Ability to hot-add USB keys or USB external drives Install "git" source code revision management software (yum install git-core) Lesson 1-- A kernel panic happens when there is a mismatch between the following three files: /boot/grub/menu.lst /etc/fstab /etc/mtab My problem was that I would change one thing at a time, reboot and see how it worked, but in this case you need to make sure all the changes are made consistently before rebooting. Lesson 2-- The XS163.iso, Fedora7 and Debian4 all assume that if you have two drives attached, that you want LVM2 and RAID pre-configured. In the case of XS163.iso, this meant that the line "--clearpart --all --sda" fails because in "LVM2+RAID" install mode, it changes sda to /dev/mapper/pdc_bbbh. My problem was that I had bult the hardware to its complete finished version, and then tried to do the installations. By disconnecting "drive 2" and doing most of the work with only a single drive, all the OS images were quite happy. Even the native vanilla XS-163.iso installed on this machine without problems. I now have triple-boot working (XS-163, Fedora 7, and Debian 4), reconnected the second drive, and am successfully RAID-1 mirroring the /boot directory over to the second drive! I will work on mirroing and converting the partitions into LVM2 logical volumes next. Then try to figure out the Moodle+PostgreSQL situation after that. I'm keeping notes in this wiki page: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Az990tony/edublog-beta-sw Thanks Tony Pearson Senior Storage Consultant, IBM System Storage? Telephone: +1 520-799-4309 | tie 321-4309 | Cell: +1 520 990-8669 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | GSA: http://tucgsa.ibm.com/~tpearson Blog: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/InsideSystemStorage AKA: 990tony Paravane, eightbar specialist
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