Monthly Archives: October 2012

Bootstrapping a Fedora 17 rootserver

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Quite a few things have changed since I made the Bootstrapping a Fedora 15 rootserver post, e.g. download urls, anaconda options and the way you add boot targets to grub2 (in contrast to legacy grub). So here’s an updated version… Get initial ramdisk and kernel This is basically still the same as with Fedora 15. The download links have changed… Read more »

Adding custom boot target to GRUB2

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In GRUB2 one doesn’t alter the main configuration file /boot/grub2/grub.cfg manually any more. Boot menu entries are automatically determined by the grub2-mkconfig script. To add a custom menu entry, edit /etc/grub.d/40_custom Note that GRUB2 partition numbering starts with 1 (not 0 like GRUB) but disk numbering starts with 0, e.g. if your kernel and inital ramdisk are located on /dev/sda2,… Read more »