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On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 13:12:40 -0700 (PDT), michael@×××××××××××××.com wrote: |
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>> I have Gentoo (2005.0) installed on my master primary device, and I |
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>> am trying to create a minimal Linux system on a new disk, my slave |
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>> primary device. |
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>> So, I partition and make a 32M ext2 file system, make the appropriate |
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>> directories and devices, install busybox and other odds and ends. Then I |
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>> copy over the kernel from my Gentoo system (same hardware, so the same |
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>> kernel). |
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>> Finally I install grub on the slave primary device, and set up my |
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>> grub.conf like so: |
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>> default 0 |
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>> timeout 10 |
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>> title=minimal linux on slave primary device |
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>> root (hd1,0) |
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>> kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1 |
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>> root (hd1,0) should be the first partition on my slave primary device |
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> You don't need to install GRUB on the slave drive, just add this to your |
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> existing grub.conf. GRUB is able to boot from a different drive. |
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Ah, but eventually the first disk will go away. It's just support while |
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I develop the minimal install. So I do need grub on it. But thanks for |
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responding anyway, I appreciate the help |
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Michael |
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