HOWTO_Remote_Installation_RAID1

1 Intro
2 Current setup
3 The Plan
4 Installation of gentoo
5 Post Installation
6 Troubleshooting
- 6.1 upgrade the kernel
- 6.2 After you booted

Intro

This is a step by step of what I did to install gentoo remotely from a running debian.

I want my disks to use software RAID1 so I will be installing gentoo on the second disk (sdb) and set it up as a degraded RAID.

This was written on the fly and I realise it's messy and maybe not the best way of doing things... but it works. Feel free to edit or comment.

No disrespect to debian by the way, just that I had worked a lot with gentoo and didn't want to do it all over again.

--ecosta 23:23, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Current setup

Software

Debian sarge minimal install on sda.

File: /boot/grub/menu.lst

timeout 5
default 0
color cyan/blue white/blue

title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.8-3-386
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /vmlinuz-2.6.8-3-386 root=/dev/sda3 ro
initrd          /initrd.img-2.6.8-3-386
savedefault
boot

title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.8-3-386 (recovery mode)
lock
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /vmlinuz-2.6.8-3-386 root=/dev/sda3 ro single
initrd          /initrd.img-2.6.8-3-386
savedefault
boot

title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel memtest86+
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /memtest86+.bin
boot

Hardware

Specs

File: Box specs

2 x Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.00GHz
2 x 512 RAM
2 x 160 GB SATA (WDC WD1600JS-75N)
2 x NIC (Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection)

File: Hardware details

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. Server Memory Controller Hub (rev 09)
0000:00:02.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. Memory Controller Hub PCI Express Port A0 (rev 09)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #1 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #2 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Bridge (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) Ultra ATA 100 Storage Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801EB (ICH5) Serial ATA 150 Storage Controller (rev 02)
0000:01:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. PCI Bridge Hub A (rev 09)
0000:01:00.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. PCI Bridge Hub B (rev 09)
0000:02:04.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82541GI/PI Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 05)
0000:04:03.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82541GI/PI Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 05)
0000:04:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE]

disks

Only sda is being used. sdb is free.

Code: fdisk

# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3             146G  337M  138G   1% /
tmpfs                 443M  4.0K  443M   1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1             487M   15M  447M   4% /boot

The Plan

The aim is to

Install gentoo onto sdb
Boot into gentoo
Mirror sda with contents of sdb (gentoo)
emerge -e world

Installation of gentoo

Prepare the RAID

Prepare gentoo to be installed on a degraded RAID1.

load RAID module

Code: load raid1 module and check

# modprobe raid1
# lsmod | grep raid
raid1                  16000  0
md                     44744  1 raid1

prepare the disk for the RAID

Code: fdisk

# fdisk -l /dev/sdb

Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19452 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           1          13      104391   fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sdb2              14         136      987997+  fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sdb3             137         380     1959930   fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sdb4             381       19452   153195840    5  Extended
/dev/sdb5             381         503      987966   fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sdb6             504         990     3911796   fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sdb7             991        1173     1469916   fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sdb8            1174        1235      497983+  fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sdb9            1236       19452   146328021   fd  Linux raid autodetect

Build the RAID

We have to create a RAID in a degraded form so that we can install gentoo on the RAID without losing debian.

RAID partitions start with md0 and go up one each time. I have seen this leading to errors with partitions eg: md3 is really /dev/sdb5. So to avoid this, I will name the RAID devices the same as the partitions. So /dev/md5 = /dev/sdb5

install mdadm

Install mdadm if you don't already have it:

Code: Install mdadm

# apt-cache search mdadm
mdadm - Manage MD devices aka Linux Software Raid
mdctl - Dummy package for transition to 'mdadm'.
raidtools2 - transitional dummy package that can safely be removed

# apt-get install mdadm

Create the devices for the RAID

Code: Create RAID devices

# mkdir /dev/md
# for i in 1 2 3 5 6 7 8 9; do mknod /dev/md/$i b 9 $i; ln -s /dev/md/$i /dev/md$i; done

Create the degraded RAID

Code: Create degraded RAID1

# for i in 1 2 3 5 6 7 8 9; do mdadm --create /dev/md$i --level=1 --raid-devices=2 missing /dev/sdb$i; done
mdadm: array /dev/md1 started.
mdadm: array /dev/md2 started.
mdadm: array /dev/md3 started.
mdadm: array /dev/md5 started.
mdadm: array /dev/md6 started.
mdadm: array /dev/md7 started.
mdadm: array /dev/md8 started.
mdadm: array /dev/md9 started.

check the status of the RAID

check the status of the RAID as a whole...

Code: /proc/mdstat

# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid1]
md1 : active raid1 sdb1[1]
      104320 blocks [2/1] [_U]
[...]

... and for more detail:

Code: mdadm

# mdadm --detail /dev/md1
/dev/md1:
        Version : 00.90.01
  Creation Time : Wed Jan 24 10:51:39 2007
     Raid Level : raid1
     Array Size : 104320 (101.88 MiB 106.82 MB)
    Device Size : 104320 (101.88 MiB 106.82 MB)
   Raid Devices : 2
  Total Devices : 1
Preferred Minor : 1
    Persistence : Superblock is persistent

    Update Time : Wed Jan 24 10:51:39 2007
          State : clean, degraded
 Active Devices : 1
Working Devices : 1
 Failed Devices : 0
  Spare Devices : 0

           UUID : 3165639b:c92abf3c:72f0f2b7:767fc1fd
         Events : 0.1

    Number   Major   Minor   RaidDevice State
       0       0        0        -      removed
       1       8       17        1      active sync   /dev/.static/dev/sdb1

Generate configuration file

We will just copy the config file to a safe place for when we chroot into gentoo

Code: mdadm

# mdadm --detail --scan >> ~/mdadm.conf

Create SWAP and file systems

swap

Create and activate swap.

Code: mkswap

# mkswap /dev/md3
# swapon /dev/md3

ext2

Code: mke2fs

# mke2fs /dev/md1

ext3

Code: mke2fs

# for i in 2 5 6 7 8 9; do mke2fs -j /dev/md$i; done

Pre Chroot

Time to get started with gentoo's installation.

mount RAID devices

Code: mount

# mkdir /mnt/gentoo
# mount -t ext3 /dev/md2 /mnt/gentoo/

# mkdir /mnt/gentoo/{boot,usr,home,var,tmp}

# mount -t ext2 /dev/md1 /mnt/gentoo/boot
# mount -t ext3 /dev/md5 /mnt/gentoo/home
# mount -t ext3 /dev/md6 /mnt/gentoo/usr
# mount -t ext3 /dev/md7 /mnt/gentoo/var

# mkdir /mnt/gentoo/var/backups

# mount -t ext3 /dev/md8 /mnt/gentoo/tmp
# mount -t ext3 /dev/md9 /mnt/gentoo/var/backups

# cd /mnt/gentoo

Stage3 and portage tarball

Download stage3 and the portage snapshot.

Code: extract stage3

# wget ftp://mirror.utdlug.org/linux/distributions/gentoo/releases/x86/2006.1/stages/stage3-i686-2006.1.tar.bz2
# wget ftp://mirror.utdlug.org/linux/distributions/gentoo/releases/x86/2006.1/stages/stage3-i686-2006.1.tar.bz2.DIGESTS

# md5sum -vc stage3-i686-2006.1.tar.bz2.DIGESTS
stage3-i686-2006.1.tar.bz2 OK

# tar xvjpf stage3-i686-2006.1.tar.bz2

Code: extract portage

# wget ftp://mirror.utdlug.org/linux/distributions/gentoo/snapshots/portage-latest.tar.bz2
# wget ftp://mirror.utdlug.org/linux/distributions/gentoo/snapshots/portage-latest.tar.bz2.md5sum

# md5sum -vc portage-latest.tar.bz2.md5sum
portage-latest.tar.bz2 OK

# tar xvjf /mnt/gentoo/portage-latest.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/gentoo/usr

Better safe than sorry

round about now would be a good idea to install screen so that if anything happens to the internet link, we don't lose all that hard work :)

Code: screen

# apt-get install screen

make.conf

rather than going over it again and again, I'll just setup the make.conf file once and for all.

File: /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf

# Tuned
#CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
#CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
#CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"

# Default
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"

MAKEOPTS="-j5"

USE="-X -gtk -ipv6 mysql logrotate unicode"

GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo http://mirror.phy.olemiss.edu/mirror/gentoo http://gentoo.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/gentoo/
 http://mirror.utdlug.org/linux/distributions/gentoo/ ftp://mirror.utdlug.org/linux/distributions/gentoo/ "
SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"

LINGUAS="en fr"

FEATURES="-sandbox parallel-fetch"

PORT_LOGDIR="/var/log/portage/elog"
PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES="warn error log"
PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM="save"

and create the path for the logs

Code: /mnt/gentoo/var/log/portage/elog

# mkdir -p /mnt/gentoo/var/log/portage/elog

Chroot

At this point I got an error when running chroot which said: FATAL: kernel too old. If you get this error, you will need to upgrade your kernel to a newer version. I have added details of this procedure in troubleshooting

Code: chroot

# cp -L /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/gentoo/etc/resolv.conf
# cp -L ~/mdadm.conf /mnt/gentoo/etc
# mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc
# mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev
# cd /
# chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash

/ # env-update
>>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache...
/ # source /etc/profile
/ # export PS1="(chroot) $PS1"
(chroot)  / #

create RAID devices

Make sure the devices are presend (/dev/md*). If not, recreate them as you did above.

sync the portage tree

Code: sync portage

(chroot)  / # emerge --sync

locales

I added the following to /etc/locale.gen but you probably don't need this

File: locale.gen

en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
en_US ISO-8859-1
fr_FR.UTF-8 UTF-8
fr_FR ISO-8859-1
fr_FR@euro ISO-8859-15

Code: generate locale

(chroot)  / # locale-gen

timezone

Set the timezone.

Code: timezone

(chroot)  ~ # cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Central /etc/localtime

Setup the kernel

You are going to have to be extra careful here! If it doesn't boot, your stuffed.

Code: install kernel sources

(chroot)  ~ # emerge gentoo-sources

debian kernel setup

If you had a problem with the debian kernel and had to update it, you can use the .config file you generated for gentoo!

from debian (not chroot)

Code: copy kernel settings

# cp /usr/src/linux/.config /mnt/gentoo/usr/src/linux

Configure the kernel

Code: Configure

(chroot)  linux # make oldconfig
(chroot)  linux # make menuconfig

Compile the kernel

Code: Compile

(chroot)  linux # make && make modules_install install

Setup fstab

Code:

# <fs>                  <mountpoint>            <type>          <opts>                                  <dump/pass>

/dev/md1                /boot                   ext2            noauto,noatime                          1 2
/dev/md2                /                       ext3            noatime                                 0 1
/dev/md3                none                    swap            sw                                      0 0
/dev/md5                /home                   ext3            defaults,noexec,nosuid                  0 1
/dev/md6                /usr                    ext3            defaults                                0 1
/dev/md7                /var                    ext3            defaults                                0 1
/dev/md8                /tmp                    ext3            defaults,noexec,nosuid                  0 1
/dev/md9                /var/backups            ext3            defaults,noexec,nosuid                  1 2

proc                    /proc                   proc            defaults                                0 0
shm                     /dev/shm                tmpf            snodev,nosuid,noexec                    0 0

Setup network information

Code: network info

(chroot)  linux # nano -w /etc/conf.d/hostname
(chroot)  linux # nano -w /etc/conf.d/net
(chroot)  linux # rc-update add net.eth0 default

Set password

Code: passwd

(chroot)  linux # passwd

Environment configs

Code: env config

(chroot)  linux # nano -w /etc/rc.conf
(chroot)  linux # nano -w /etc/conf.d/clock

Code: install needed packages

(chroot)  linux # emerge syslog-ng && rc-update add syslog-ng default
(chroot)  linux # emerge vixie-cron && rc-update add vixie-cron default
(chroot)  linux # rc-update add sshd default
(chroot)  linux # emerge -av mdadm grub

Grub installation=

We have to make sure we are not going to overwrite the mbr on sda!

grub.conf

I'm not sure what grub.conf the boot loader will read, I suspect the debian one, but if I am wrong, I'd like it to find an entry so I duplicated the entry in grub.conf, for now.

File: /boot/grub/grub.conf

timeout 3
default 0
fallback 1

title Linux Gentoo 2.6.18-r6 - 1st kernel
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-gentoo-r6 ro root=/dev/md2

title Linux Gentoo 2.6.18-r6 - 1st kernel
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-gentoo-r6 ro root=/dev/md2

File system preparation

Code: mtab

(chroot)  linux # grep -v rootfs /proc/mounts > /etc/mtab

Write MBR

Code: grub on mbr

(chroot)  linux # grub --no-floppy
grub> device (hd1) /dev/sdb
grub> root (hd1,0)
 Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0xfd
grub> setup (hd1)
 Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes
 Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes
 Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes
 Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd1)"...  15 sectors are embedded.
succeeded
 Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd1) (hd1)1+15 p (hd1,0)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/menu.lst"... succeeded
Done.

grub> quit

now if I am right, we won't be using the grub from gentoo but the one from debian so we need to add gentoo config to the debian grub.conf

reboot

Code: exit chroot

(chroot)  linux # exit

exit from screen

Code: unmount gentoo file systems

# umount /mnt/gentoo/{proc,dev,boot,home,usr,var/backups,var,tmp,.}

Code: reboot using gentoo kernel

# grub-reboot 1

Post Installation

Check OS

Code: check OS

$ ssh root@1.2.3.4

# uname -a
Linux bu03 2.6.18-gentoo-r6 #3 SMP PREEMPT Thu Jan 25 09:01:05 CST 2007 i686 Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.00GHz GNU/Linux

We are in gentoo... Joy!

Rebuild the RAID

We need to fdisk sda so that it looks identical to sdb. Warning: From here on, if you mess up the box, you are doomed. I did a copy of my working .config file so that in case it does pear shape, I don't have to spend an hour tuening it again.

fdisk sda

fdisk sda and make sure it is identical to sdb!

Code: compare disks

# fdisk -l /dev/sd{a,b}

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19452 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1          13      104391   fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sda2              14         136      987997+  fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sda3             137         380     1959930   fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sda4             381       19452   153195840    5  Extended
/dev/sda5             381         503      987966   fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sda6             504         990     3911796   fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sda7             991        1173     1469916   fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sda8            1174        1235      497983+  fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sda9            1236       19452   146328021   fd  Linux raid autodetect

Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19452 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           1          13      104391   fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sdb2              14         136      987997+  fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sdb3             137         380     1959930   fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sdb4             381       19452   153195840    5  Extended
/dev/sdb5             381         503      987966   fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sdb6             504         990     3911796   fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sdb7             991        1173     1469916   fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sdb8            1174        1235      497983+  fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sdb9            1236       19452   146328021   fd  Linux raid autodetect

Add sda to the RAID

You might not want to automate this... at your own risk.

Code: Add sda to RAID1

# for i in 1 2 3 5 6 7 8 9; do mdadm /dev/md$i -a /dev/sda$i; done

Monitor the RAID

Code: watch

# watch cat /proc/mdstat

At the end you should get "UU" on every device which means they are up and running... If you have a "_", something went wrong

This is what you should see once the RAID is in sync:

Code: mdstat

# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid1]
md1 : active raid1 sda1[0] sdb1[1]
      104320 blocks [2/2] [UU]

md2 : active raid1 sda2[0] sdb2[1]
      987904 blocks [2/2] [UU]

md3 : active raid1 sda3[0] sdb3[1]
      1959808 blocks [2/2] [UU]

md5 : active raid1 sda5[0] sdb5[1]
      987840 blocks [2/2] [UU]

md6 : active raid1 sda6[0] sdb6[1]
      3911680 blocks [2/2] [UU]

md7 : active raid1 sda7[0] sdb7[1]
      1469824 blocks [2/2] [UU]

md8 : active raid1 sda8[0] sdb8[1]
      497856 blocks [2/2] [UU]

md9 : active raid1 sda9[0] sdb9[1]
      146327936 blocks [2/2] [UU]

unused devices: <none>

Reconfigure grub

Let's make sure we have grub setup on the mbr of both disks. This way we can boot from either disk in case of failure.

We should also have two entries in grub.conf... one for each disk

grub setup

Code: grub

# grub --no-floppy
grub> device (hd0) /dev/sda

grub> root (hd0,0)
 Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0xfd

grub> setup (hd0)
 Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes
 Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes
 Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes
 Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"...  15 sectors are embedded.
succeeded
 Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+15 p (hd0,0)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/menu.lst"... succeeded
Done.

grub> device (hd1) /dev/sdb

grub> root (hd1,0)
 Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0xfd

grub> setup (hd1)
 Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes
 Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes
 Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes
 Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd1)"...  15 sectors are embedded.
succeeded
 Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd1) (hd1)1+15 p (hd1,0)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/menu.lst"... succeeded
Done.

grub> quit

grub.conf

File: /boot/grub/grub.conf

# cat /boot/grub/grub.conf
timeout 3
default 0
fallback 1

title Linux Gentoo 2.6.18-r6 - 1st kernel
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-gentoo-r ro root=/dev/md2

title Linux Gentoo 2.6.18-r6 - 1st kernel
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-gentoo-r ro root=/dev/md2

boot

Let's see if it boots of sda (hd0)

No grub-reboot under gentoo :( Let's see if sdb boot's then swap entries and boot of sda.

Code: shutdown

# shutdown -r now

if it does, try to boot of sda (hd0)

Code: shutdown

# shutdown -r now

if it does, hi five! You have a running gentoo fully mirrored.

Final step

Now that you have a working RAID, please monitor it ;)

Add the following in: /etc/conf.d/local.start

Code: monitor

/sbin/mdadm --monitor --mail=your@email.com --syslog --delay=1800 --daemonise --pid-file=/var/run/mdmonitor.pid /dev/md1 /dev/md2 /dev/md3 /dev/md5 /dev/md6 /dev/md7 /dev/md8 /dev/md9 &>/dev/null

now setup your CPU flags and emerge -e world

voila!

Troubleshooting

If you had the error FATAL: kernel too old, you will have to upgrade your kernel and go over a few steps again. This is what I had to do.

Code: prepare chroot

# cp -L /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/gentoo/etc/resolv.conf
# cp -L ~/mdadm.conf /mnt/gentoo/etc
# mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc
# mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev
# cd /
# chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
FATAL: kernel too old

upgrade the kernel

This seems to mean that the kernel can't support the libraries because it's too old so we need to upgrade the kernel (dread).

One positive outcome though! If we can boot with the new debian kernel, we can use the .config file for our own gentoo so we're at least sure the kernel will boot.

Current debian kernel: Linux 2.6.8-3-386 #1 Wed Dec 6 00:38:53 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux

Code: extract new kernel

# wget ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.18.6.tar.bz2

# cd /usr/src
# tar jxvf ~/linux-2.6.18.6.tar.bz2
# ln -s linux-2.6.18.6 linux
# cd linux
# cp /boot/config-2.6.8-3-386 ./.config
# make oldconfig
# cp .config .config.new

now let's make sure all important kernel parameters are there, ide, chipset, ...

Code: configure kernel

# make menuconfig

I made sure that crucial devices where not set as modules such as sata, ethernet, ...

Code: install kernel

# make clean && make && make modules_install install
# ls -lrt /boot
...
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1813084 Jan 24 23:23 vmlinuz-2.6.18.6
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      16 Jan 24 23:23 vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-2.6.18.6
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  947815 Jan 24 23:23 System.map-2.6.18.6
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      19 Jan 24 23:23 System.map -> System.map-2.6.18.6
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   62293 Jan 24 23:23 config-2.6.18.6
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      15 Jan 24 23:23 config -> config-2.6.18.6

add the following to /boot/grub/menu.lst

File: menu.lst

title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-6-vanilla
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /vmlinuz-2.6.18.6 root=/dev/sda3 ro
savedefault
boot

I put it right after the default boot so it will have value 1 for the grub-reboot command!

now exit screen and unmount all your gentoo mounted partitions.

Code: reboot

# grub-reboot 1

Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.


    GNU GRUB  version 0.95  (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)

 [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported.  For the first word, TAB
   lists possible command completions.  Anywhere else TAB lists the possible
   completions of a device/filename. ]
grub> savedefault --once --default=1
grub> quit

Do you want to reboot now? [y/N] y

After you booted

Code: post boot

$ ssh root@1.2.3.4
Password:
Last login: Thu Jan 25 04:33:51 2007
# uname -a
Linux  2.6.18.6 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jan 24 23:19:34 CST 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

Oh joy! Now we have to do the following again (refer to above notes)

load the raid1 module
create the RAID deices
reassemble existing degraded RAID

# for i in 1 2 3 5 6 7 8 9; do mdadm --assemble /dev/md$i /dev/sdb$i; done

mount the RAID devices to /mnt/gentoo
activate swap (md3)
copy the new .config file to /mnt/gentoo/root for later use
screen
chroot (4.5)

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Gentoo Wiki

HOWTO_Remote_Installation_RAID1

Contents

Intro

Current setup

Software

Hardware

Specs

disks

The Plan

Installation of gentoo

Prepare the RAID

load RAID module

prepare the disk for the RAID

Build the RAID

install mdadm

Create the devices for the RAID

Create the degraded RAID

check the status of the RAID

Generate configuration file

Create SWAP and file systems

swap

ext2

ext3

Pre Chroot

mount RAID devices

Stage3 and portage tarball

Better safe than sorry

make.conf

Chroot

create RAID devices

sync the portage tree

locales

timezone

Setup the kernel

debian kernel setup

Configure the kernel

Compile the kernel

Setup fstab

Setup network information

Set password

Environment configs

Grub installation=

grub.conf

File system preparation

Write MBR

reboot

Post Installation

Check OS

Rebuild the RAID

fdisk sda

Add sda to the RAID

Monitor the RAID

Reconfigure grub

grub setup

grub.conf

boot

Final step

Troubleshooting

upgrade the kernel

After you booted