On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 11:26:31AM -0500, Madison Kelly wrote:
Hi all,
I have been -trying- to setup a server with a '/' filesystem of 'reiserfs' for later use under LVM and some HA software but I have been absolutely unable to get past the starting gate and on top of feeling flat out stupid I am also getting terribly frustrated.
I want to do one, little simple thing - make a backup of '/' to another drive/partition and then reboot using it. It seems that absolutely no matter what I do, what file I edit or what I try to force the system (Fedora Core 1) INSISTS on using the original '/' (in this case '/dev/sda1'). I don't what the heck I am doing wrong but I am about to blow a gasket. I have never been so fsck'ing mad at Linux before. Why is it so damn hard to mount a different '/' partition?!
I assume backup went okey, and you're trying to boot from /dev/sdb1 (eg) instead of original /dev/sda1. 1. Locate grub.conf (or, whatever that is in grub) and search for root=/dev/sda1 and change it to '/dev/sdb1'. Then, write to MBR. 2. When you choose kernel from 'boot:' prompt (or, whatever), add kernel parameter as usual, ie. linux root=/dev/sdb1 3. Or, as last resort, write '/dev/sdb1' right into the kernel, using rdev vmlinuz /dev/sdb1
Anyway, I am using Grub because it is the only boot loader available on Fedora. I have tried reading the docs and am doing so again after sending this to see if I missed something simple...
Bah, if nothing else this is a rant that may help me cool down enough to find my problem. Sorry for the noise.
Madison
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