Re: Partition and Boot loader for Squeeze on G4
Rick Thomas wrote:
On Apr 26, 2010, at 7:10 AM, Shawn H Corey wrote:
PowerPCs always use yaboot.
Does yaboot know enough about LVMs and RAIDs to find the kernel and
initrd in a root partition that's in a logical volume on a software raid-1?
I never used yaboot with RAID so I wouldn't know.
To be safe, I'd create a real, live, physical root (or at least a /boot
-- not the same as the "Apple_Bootstrap") on each of physical disks of
the RAID-1, and periodically mirror them from the "active one". Then if
the disk with the active root (or /boot) goes south, you can manually
tell yaboot to use one of the mirrors.
The Apple_Bootstrap is need so that OpenFirmware can find it and load
yaboot. You do not need to mount it on Linux. As you can see below, on
my machine, /dev/hda2 is the bootstrap but it is not mounted. The /boot
directory would be on the Linux root partition.
$ sudo mac-fdisk -l
/dev/hda
# type name length base
( size ) system
/dev/hda1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1
( 31.5k) Partition map
/dev/hda2 Apple_Bootstrap untitled 1954 @ 64
(977.0k) NewWorld bootblock
/dev/hda3 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 untitled 5859376 @ 2018
( 2.8G) Linux native
/dev/hda4 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 3013141 @ 75127019
( 1.4G) Linux swap
/dev/hda5 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 untitled 19531251 @ 5861394
( 9.3G) Linux native
/dev/hda6 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 untitled 49732422 @ 25392645
( 23.7G) Linux native
/dev/hda7 Apple_Free Extra 1952 @ 75125067
(976.0k) Free space
Block size=512, Number of Blocks=78140160
DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0
$ mount | column -t
/dev/hda3 on / type ext4
(rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /sys type sysfs
(rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
none on /dev/pts type devpts
(rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
none on /var/run type tmpfs
(rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
none on /var/lock type tmpfs
(rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs
(rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
/dev/hda5 on /usr type ext4 (rw)
/dev/hda6 on /home type ext4 (rw)
I've never actually tried that, myself. The configuration I use
personally is slightly less reliable but much easier to set-up. I have
3 disks, one small one and two big ones. The two big ones are setup in
a raid-1 and partitioned with LVM. All user data resides on the
RAID/LVM. The small disk has everything necessary to boot the system,
find the LVM and so on, but nothing that can't be reconstructed by
re-installing -- i.e. no user data. If the root disk goes south, I can
replace it and use a live-cd to restore it from backups or re-install it
from scratch using an install CD.
Have you tried a Live USB yet?
http://mac.linux.be/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=85
--
Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth,
Shawn
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