On Sun, 8 Apr 2007 23:29:20 -0400 "Ciro Iriarte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 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]> 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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