Custom Install
Chris Murphy
lists at colorremedies.com
Fri Apr 25 02:41:05 UTC 2014
On Apr 24, 2014, at 11:02 AM, Shane Johnson <sdj at rasmussenequipment.com> wrote:
> I am coming to Fedora from Debian and would appreciate some help please.
>
> In Debian I was able to quickly install a system (vm/real) using
> debootstrap. I am looking for a way to do this in Fedora.
>
> So far I have tried using the instructions here while running under a
> live CD : http://www.virtuatopia.com/index.php/Building_a_Xen_Guest_Root_Filesystem_using_yum_and_rpm
>
> and then installing mdadm, lvm2, kernel, and grub2. I change the
> password and then try to reboot and it keeps getting stuck with not
> being able to start the RAID after the reboot. I am able to do mdadm
> -A /dev/md/{raid} and then exit until the system boots. I have tried
> rerunning dracut --kver 3.13.10-200.fc20.x86_64 and it runs and
> creates the new initrd file. Then I run grub2-mkconfig -o
> /boot/grub2/grub.cfg and it keeps having problems with errors not
> being able to access "/dev/md0 " (I added the quotes due to finding
> this page : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=981909. ) I
> have symlinked "/dev/md0 " > /dev/md0 and gotten rid of the errors
> but it is still not starting the RAID.
>
> Does anyone have a better way to do this kind of install or a way to
> resolve this problem with Grub2 that I haven't been able to find?
1. mdadm.conf
2. grub.cfg
3. mdadm -E /dev/sdX (for one of the members)
4. This is /boot and rootfs on an md device?
Chris Murphy
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