from grub to syslinux

student975 · 2012-07-20 10:38:16

This is a reason of planning to migrate: http://www.archlinux.org/news/grub-lega … supported/
Of course, I have found this wiki article: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Syslinux
But there are few additional factors:

1. It is (self-made) NAS: headless (and far from access - somewhere near ceiling )
2. A system is installed on flash stick while hard drives are used for raid:

# ls /dev/sd*
/dev/sda  /dev/sda1  /dev/sdb  /dev/sdb1  /dev/sdc  /dev/sdc1  /dev/sdc2  /dev/sdc3

You see, flash stick - i.e. boot drive!! - is hdc rather hda sdc rather sda.

The question: can these factors lead to some caveats on the installation way as described in that wiki article?

Last edited by student975 (2012-07-20 12:28:42)

tomk · 2012-07-20 10:44:55

Even before all kernel drivers changed from hd* to sd* (a long time ago), usb storage devices had changed to sd* (an even longer time ago) - so no, I don't believe any of your devices show up in Arch as hd*.

More details please - and make sure they are accurate.

student975 · 2012-07-20 10:47:32

tomk wrote:

Even before all kernel drivers changed from hd* to sd* (a long time ago), usb storage devices had changed to sd* (an even longer time ago) - so no, I don't believe any of your devices show up in Arch as hd*.
More details please - and make sure they are accurate.

Oops... Sorry, it is just a typo. Must be: sdc rather sda

Last edited by student975 (2012-07-20 11:02:10)

tomk · 2012-07-20 10:56:59

Use the Manual Install procedure and you'll be fine.

student975 · 2012-07-20 11:03:31

tomk wrote:

Use the Manual Install procedure and you'll be fine.

Thanks! - I'll try.

maik-hro · 2012-07-20 11:20:32

student975 wrote:

This is a reason of planning to migrate: http://www.archlinux.org/news/grub-lega … supported/

Which reason exactly, except of the news and the fact that GRUB2 replaced GRUB?

student975 · 2012-07-20 11:28:00

Are there some preferences in use one of these ways in config:

APPEND root=UUID=<uuid here>

and

APPEND root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/<uuid here>

?

The thing is, I'd want to use UUID for booting. The first way was used by Arch installer (on my workstation). The second one is used in wiki article. Any difference?

student975 · 2012-07-20 11:34:29

maik-hro wrote:

Which reason exactly, except of the news and the fact that GRUB2 replaced GRUB?

There isn't such forcing reason: the NAS works fine as is. Probably, a desire to have some commonality on all Arch installations I support (four ones ).

65kid · 2012-07-20 12:20:35

student975 wrote:

Are there some preferences in use one of these ways in config:
APPEND root=UUID=<uuid here>
and
APPEND root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/<uuid here>
?
The thing is, I'd want to use UUID for booting. The first way was used by Arch installer (on my workstation). The second one is used in wiki article. Any difference?

afaik UUID= is just a shortform, shouldn't make any difference.

Gusar · 2012-07-20 12:39:59

65kid wrote:

afaik UUID= is just a shortform, shouldn't make any difference.

It's not a short form, the two are handled completely differently. The Arch initramfs handles both though, so effectively it doesn't matter which you use.

student975 · 2012-07-20 12:49:04

OK, thanks to all! - have rebooted the NAS remotely.

There was a funny minute (or two) on waiting for ping after common turning-on period. As I have found in logs later, there was just fschk started on raid

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