Grub

[Karl Larsen]

jdow wrote:
> From: "Karl Larsen" <k5di at zianet.com>
>> jdow wrote:
>>> From: "Karl Larsen" <k5di at zianet.com>
>>>
>
>>> I have taken the labeling one step further than I remember RedHat
>>> taking before. I labeled the FC7 install with a "-7" at the end of
>>> the label to make it distinguishable from the others. So I have
>>> things like sda0 is labeled "/boot-7" and so forth.
>>>
>>> {^_^}   Joanne, also a ham.
>>    Right this moment grub.conf and fstab have labels where they can 
>> be used. I like it fine but learned that if I use software RAID I 
>> can't use labels. So it depends what I do.
>
> I've avoided software RAID completely, mostly for speed reasons. This
> seems like another good reason to avoid it. That is good to know.
>
> Out of curiosity have you tried the Rescue feature on the install DVD
> or CDROMs? That at least might get you in so you could repair any
> misfeatures. But you'd have to resize and move partitions around via
> some other means. So if there's nothing precious on the system I'd
> simply reinstall with a more sane disk layout. (A difficult experience
> also makes me wary of the LVM feature, too.)
>
> {o.o}    Joanne
>
    Hi Joanne, yes and the rescue modes keep getting better. The F7 DVD 
is really nice. You just put it in your DVD drive and reboot. It comes 
up wanting to install F7 but you select Rescue. It loads a kernel and 
then a special system that has all you need to fix a mis-deed. I like 
the joe editor and it is available and all the disk fixing things like 
fdisk are there. You can mount your linux to this rescue so you can get 
to the problem thing like grub.conf :-)

    It works and is simple. Could not be much better.



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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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