On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Marcus Moeller wrote:
> I personally cannot agree on that. Syncing /boot 'manually' adds much
> more complexibility, unless you add scripts that automate the process.
Setup:
/etc/yum.conf contains a:
exclude=kernel\*
/etc/yum-kernel.conf does not
Actions:
trivially wrappable in a script
# mount -n -w /boot
# yum -c /etc/yum-kernel.conf update kernel\*
# mount -n -r /boot
# [ ! -d /mnt/boot ] && mkdir /mnt/boot
# mount -w /mnt/boot /dev/sdbX (/boot1)
# rsync -a /boot/. /mnt/boot/.
# umount /mnt/boot
A copy and paste of the first stanza (zero index is our convention
here) with one edit for /boot's
root (hd0,0)
to make it:
root (hd1,0)
finishes the job
> I also wonder what's wrong in having /boot on a RAID1 partition,
> because rescue mode should offer all necessary tools to mount raid
> partitions. Instead I would suggest to add a separate page with common
> recovery scenarios.
No rescue media may be available, or the host may lack a drive
to boot it from; my method, and an alternate 'fallback' boot
stanza in grub.conf
# Fallback to the second entry.
fallback 1
and one can recover with nothing more than a grub system
prompt
-- Russ herrold
