Had to create separate /boot for SLES 9 installation on Dell Precision 470 (SATA)
I had posted an earlier message regarding installation of SLES 9 on a Dell Precision 470.
I was able to sucessfully complete the installation subject to two caveats:
1. It HAD to install on the first disk (/dev/sda). All attempts to install SLES 9 on /dev/sdb failed. I was attempting to install SLES 9 SP3 x86_64.
2. On the /dev/sda device, I HAD to create a separate /boot partition. Attempts to create /dev/sda1 as both / and /boot failed upon installation reboot (GRUB, failed to load stage 2...).
Note that there are no such problems when installing SUSE LINUX 10.
The question(s) are:
1. Does anyone know why I had to create a separate /boot partition on SLES 9 and not on SUSE Linux 10?
2. Given that the installation will not even boot from /dev/sdb, is it fair to assume that any attempt to do software RAID will be useless?
3. Are there any best practices out there to protect the root disk? On other **IX OS, there are "standard" procedures to mirror your root disk. Is there anything like that for SuSE short of hardware mirroring?
Many thanks in advance.
JB
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