From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 19:52:51 +0200 From: Luca Berra Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Root on LV Message-ID: <20010906195251.A20643@colombina.comedia.it> References: <3B978B57.8000208@st-peter.stw.uni-erlangen.de> <20010906093729.R32553@turbolinux.com> <3B97A5DB.8000203@st-peter.stw.uni-erlangen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3B97A5DB.8000203@st-peter.stw.uni-erlangen.de>; from galia@st-peter.stw.uni-erlangen.de on Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 06:35:39PM +0200 Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 06:35:39PM +0200, svetljo wrote: > Andreas Dilger wrote: > >Yes, you are wrong. LILO+patch can get a kernel from a logical volume. > does this mean that i can have my kernel on LV of any type ( can i have > it on striped one) > i think i have read some time ago that lilo can boot from linear RAID or > RAID1 but not from RAID-0 NO!!!! lilo uses your pc bios to boot, it cannot do anything fancy, it just reads from a disk into memory then jumps there. in order to boot kernel lilo needs to store a mapfile on the /boot fs, the disk offset of this file is stored in lilo 1-st stage loader a 512 byte program, and you cannot read a striped lv from a 512 byte proggie yet. L. -- Luca Berra -- bluca@comedia.it Communication Media & Services S.r.l. /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN X AGAINST HTML MAIL / \