disaster recovery Q's
Gene Heskett
gene.heskett at verizon.net
Fri Nov 13 20:30:53 UTC 2009
On Friday 13 November 2009, Tom H wrote:
>> In my experience,
>> the UUID is also embedded internal to the initrd.img
>> and this also should be consistent with the UUID in grub.conf
>>
>> [root at localhost clean]# less init
>>
>> near the end look for "mkrootdev" line:
>> echo Creating root device.
>> mkrootdev -t ext3 -o defaults,ro
>> UUID=54c84c0a-040b-43bd-8887-202519baaae2
>>
>> So my question remains:
>> If i try to use labels instead of UUID, do i have to modify this
>> mkrootdev line in init (initrd.img) ?
I believe this was Tom H's question, not mine although I am the threads OP.
>As long as the UUID in init (in initrd) and the root entry in
>grub.conf (whether UUID, LABEL, or /dev/xxxx) point to the same
>partition, you are OK.
>
You may want to check your facts on that actually being in the initrd file.
My 2.6.32-rc6 initrd, copied from the failing drive with 'rsync -avcAX src
target' syntax, which I booted with after swapping a new drive onto the sata1
connector, did not require a rebuild, I simply changed grub.conf to use a
'root=LABEL=sea-slash' while in rescue mode and chroot'ed, fixed a couple of
other typu's, did a 'grub-install /dev/sda" and rebooted. If its in there,
then it is apparently being over-ridden by the data in the new /etc/fstab.
I have since installed 2.6.32-rc7, and as noted in a previous msg a few
minutes ago, the machine is obviously much snappier now.
Logically, the root (hd0,0) must over-ride any UUID's that may be in the
initrd.img, otherwise it could not possibly have found even the grub.conf to
show me at boot time.
Some _real_ docs on grub would be VERY nice.
>That it why you can switch the grub.conf entries without having to
>change the UUID (or whatever other way that you are pointing to the
>root partition).
In my case, /boot is a separate partition, so in base 0 notation, its all
'root (hd0,0)' on a line by itself. And it Just Works(TM) I can, in a
different grub.conf stanza on (hd0,0)/grub/grub.conf, specify root (hd3,0),
then the UUID of the / partition that contains another distributions /
directory and boot to it just fine.
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