Re: Boot floppy for FC5

Joel Rees wrote:
There is also an IDE drive there, maybe putting GRUB in it's MBS will
work and set it up to boot from SCSI partition.

Yeah, even if you end up installing a (very small) system on the IDE
drive, just for the convenience of using FC's installer to install grub.
You can then install the whole system on the SCSI drive and have grub on
the IDE point to the SCSI.

If you end up with /boot on the IDE as well, as someone mentioned you
might, I wouldn't sweat it, I'd just remember to back /boot up from the
IDE to the SCSI disks after any kernel update..

You should not need to do that. If /boot is on its own partition,
then even it does not matter if the /boot partition is on the IDE or
the SCSI drive after the system boots. It is only during the boot
process that /boot must be on a drive that the BIOS can read. Linux
handles /boot being on a different drive then / with no problems. So
a kernel install/upgrade would write the new kernel to the IDE
drive, and that is where it will be accessed from on the running system.

Mikkel
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