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I plan to install a fresh gentoo linux in parallel to an existing SLES |
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10 server. |
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The server runs with /boot and / on 2 raid1 devices, there is a large |
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RAID6 array building the PV for several logical volumes with data on it. |
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The idea is to have the server booted from live media (chroot does not |
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work as the current kernel of SLES is too old [1] ) ... install the new |
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gentoo-root into a new LV, set up dracut for an LVM-based root and place |
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the new kernel and initrd into the existing /boot (with old grub currently). |
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Should/could work, right? |
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The extra kick (again): the server is ~600 km away from me ;-) |
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I should keep up SLES as fallback as long as I got everything up and |
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running in gentoo. The server is doing backups to a tape library and |
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monitoring stuff via nagios ... the new feature to be enabled is KVM |
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virtualization (yes, the CPU is supporting this). |
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I have access via some "KVM over IP" so I can access the server console |
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directly in case (choice of boot option, repairing stuff). |
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Any particular tips for me? |
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The grub installed is grub-0.97-16.27.1 (SLES-release). |
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Is that expected to work with recent kernels/initrds? I assume. |
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I won't touch partitions/RAIDs/bootloader for now ... these things might |
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follow later when gentoo is working on the server. |
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Thanks, Stefan |
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[1] Linux version 2.6.16.60-0.66.1-smp |
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