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

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