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Ciro Iriarte

9 Apr 2007 9 Apr '07

03:29

Hi, i currently run my main workstation with SuSE 10.1 (X86_64) with 2x250GB Sata disks on RAID1, right now i have two arrays, md0 for /boot and md1 for lvm. I'm planning to upgrade to 3x500GB SATA disks on RAID5 and would like to manage all the space with lvm to make things easier (not creating a tiny partition for /boot or having to worry about grub when replacing disks). Is it posible to put /boot on a pendrive so that i can have grub and /boot out of my way when replacing failed disks? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

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Ciro Iriarte

11 Apr 11 Apr

12:02

New subject: [opensuse] Re: Putting /boot on a pendrive...

Anyone? 2007/4/9, Ciro Iriarte :

Hi, i currently run my main workstation with SuSE 10.1 (X86_64) with 2x250GB Sata disks on RAID1, right now i have two arrays, md0 for /boot and md1 for lvm. I'm planning to upgrade to 3x500GB SATA disks on RAID5 and would like to manage all the space with lvm to make things easier (not creating a tiny partition for /boot or having to worry about grub when replacing disks). Is it posible to put /boot on a pendrive so that i can have grub and /boot out of my way when replacing failed disks?

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Jerry Feldman

15:22

Hi, i currently run my main workstation with SuSE 10.1 (X86_64) with 2x250GB Sata disks on RAID1, right now i have two arrays, md0 for /boot and md1 for lvm. I'm planning to upgrade to 3x500GB SATA disks on RAID5 and would like to manage all the space with lvm to make things easier (not creating a tiny partition for /boot or having to worry about grub when replacing disks). Is it posible to put /boot on a pendrive so that i can have grub and /boot out of my way when replacing failed disks? 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

On Sun, 8 Apr 2007 23:29:20 -0400 "Ciro Iriarte" wrote: 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 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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John Summerfield

12 Apr 12 Apr

02:06

On Wednesday 11 April 2007 23:22, Jerry Feldman 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,

Do you know an example where fdisk plus mke2fs can't change that? fwiw I have a system whose BIOS has decided not to boot directly from hda, Couldn't figure why, but booting grub on CD is fine, and this works: root (hd0) chainloader +1 boot There is, of course, no reason /boot can't (with a little work) be on a CD. -- Cheers John Summerfield -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

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Ciro Iriarte

03:19

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

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... Ciro -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

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Jerry Feldman

11:38

On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 23:19:50 -0400 "Ciro Iriarte" wrote:

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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

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 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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Ciro Iriarte

14 Apr 14 Apr

06:15

2007/4/12, Jerry Feldman :

On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 23:19:50 -0400 "Ciro Iriarte" wrote:

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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

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 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... Ciro -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

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Jerry Feldman

11:43

On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 02:15:50 -0400 "Ciro Iriarte" wrote:

2007/4/12, Jerry Feldman :

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On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 23:19:50 -0400 "Ciro Iriarte" wrote:

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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

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 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 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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Ciro Iriarte

16 Apr 16 Apr

13:25

2007/4/14, Jerry Feldman :

On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 02:15:50 -0400 "Ciro Iriarte" wrote:

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2007/4/12, Jerry Feldman :

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On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 23:19:50 -0400 "Ciro Iriarte" wrote:

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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

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 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 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

OK, i'll give it a try. Ciro -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

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