3 Advanced Disk Setup 73
3.1 Using the YaST Partitioner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
3.2 LVM Conguration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
3.3 Soft RAID Conguration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Part II System 91
4 32-Bit and 64-Bit Applications in a 64-Bit System Environment 93
4.1 Runtime Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
4.2 Software Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
4.3 Software Compilation on Biarch Platforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
4.4 Kernel Specications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
5 Booting and Conguring a Linux System 97
6 The Boot Loader GRUB 99
6.1 Booting with GRUB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
6.2 Conguring the Boot Loader with YaST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
6.3 Uninstalling the Linux Boot Loader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
6.4 Creating Boot CDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
6.5 The Graphical SUSE Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
6.6 Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
6.7 For More Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
7 Special System Features 121
7.1 Information about Special Software Packages . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
7.2 Virtual Consoles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
7.3 Keyboard Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
7.4 Language and Country-Specic Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
8
Dynamic Kernel Device Management with udev 135
8.1
The /dev Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
8.2
Kernel uevents and udev . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
8.3 Drivers, Kernel Modules and Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
8.4 Booting and Initial Device Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
8.5
Monitoring the Running udev Daemon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
8.6
Inuencing Kernel Device Event Handling with udev Rules . . . . . . . 139
8.7 Persistent Device Naming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
8.8
Files used by udev . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
