From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F0B5138CA2 for ; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 14:49:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2BA42E09E5; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 14:49:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from oc.oops.co.at (oc.oops.co.at [176.58.98.19]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6277E09CF for ; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 14:49:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oc.oops.co.at (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7BE488264 for ; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 16:49:20 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at oc.oops.co.at Received: from oc.oops.co.at ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (oc.oops.co.at [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id Xg9kBgB0OtAa for ; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 16:49:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [IPv6:2001:15c0:65ff:8742:c060:f6ff:fedb:dd72] (unknown [IPv6:2001:15c0:65ff:8742:c060:f6ff:fedb:dd72]) by oc.oops.co.at (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B2AD98819E for ; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 16:49:10 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=xunil.at; s=mailout; t=1429800550; bh=Li2rz8g7ZqOgoPQwCyNJYyVEKj07Gq4/z+H2I3Y5OJw=; h=Date:From:Reply-To:To:Subject; b=bmSu5cG6SLVpN2dQntEPdSqJYKhCzBHUX3Ko9l18P2nNVNqR+oKjfLQiOCt6EkW1W TsjHxt/suoV9uM3X435vLR6/kVcxfQzwOGazOe1kz2deaaUPzJ6uRM2OXj4NRV+ybl YFdnt/YJPZk0K+a1ubUSGX/fXBvd9snfrZDycYeY= Message-ID: <55390666.8070607@xunil.at> Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 16:49:10 +0200 From: "Stefan G. Weichinger" Organization: oops! User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] remote installation, dual boot Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 8b569359-1ef3-46e3-b75d-9be8b8919e1b X-Archives-Hash: 0d10a28ae61d2ec6dad9b188fde74cbc I plan to install a fresh gentoo linux in parallel to an existing SLES 10 server. The server runs with /boot and / on 2 raid1 devices, there is a large RAID6 array building the PV for several logical volumes with data on it. The idea is to have the server booted from live media (chroot does not work as the current kernel of SLES is too old [1] ) ... install the new gentoo-root into a new LV, set up dracut for an LVM-based root and place the new kernel and initrd into the existing /boot (with old grub currently). Should/could work, right? The extra kick (again): the server is ~600 km away from me ;-) I should keep up SLES as fallback as long as I got everything up and running in gentoo. The server is doing backups to a tape library and monitoring stuff via nagios ... the new feature to be enabled is KVM virtualization (yes, the CPU is supporting this). I have access via some "KVM over IP" so I can access the server console directly in case (choice of boot option, repairing stuff). Any particular tips for me? The grub installed is grub-0.97-16.27.1 (SLES-release). Is that expected to work with recent kernels/initrds? I assume. I won't touch partitions/RAIDs/bootloader for now ... these things might follow later when gentoo is working on the server. Thanks, Stefan [1] Linux version 2.6.16.60-0.66.1-smp