Re: [gentoo-user] grub and what happens exactly when booting.

[Dale]

Mick wrote:
> You will need to patch your kernel (in your sdb test OS) and then you
> will also need to make a reiser4 fs on your sdb partition(s) (for that
> you'll need to emerge sys-fs/reiser4progs). If you want to be able to
> mount reiser4 from within your sda OS, you will need of course to
> patch your current kernel to start with, alternatively use a LiveCD
> like sysrescue which comes already patched. For patches look in here:
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/edward/reiser4/reiser4-for-2.6/
> The way I do what you are trying to do is start with the existing OS
> on sda, partition sdb, tar contents of sda partitions into
> corresponding sdb partitions and then modify fstab. Depending on what
> you want to test you may not need grub installed into sdb's MBR and
> you may not need a /boot in sdb. As long as you are not going to
> remove sda from the machine you should be able to add a couple of
> lines in the original grub.conf to select to boot /dev/sdb, while
> using sda's MBR and /boot partition. HTH.

I could have swore reiserfs4 was in the kernel.  Sure enough, it ain't.  
I'll wait then.  I don't want to take the chance that something goes 
belly up then not have a bootable way to fix things.

Now to go unmerge the other since I can't use it anyway.  lol

Thanks.

Dale

:-)  :-)

P. S.  I got new glasses today.  They have bifocals too.  I can actually 
read what I type.  Here comes that turbo charger again.  lol