From: Luca Berra <bluca@comedia.it>
To: linux-lvm@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Boot Mgr support for '/boot' on LVM2 volumes ?
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 20:06:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060307190636.GA12504@percy.comedia.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6dcf0dbc0603050846k2b8bb546r1a3b6f30f541e473@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 05:46:45PM +0100, John Smith wrote:
>still considered 'unsupported', or at least considered to be "not a
Christophe Saout made some patches to lilo to be able to boot from a
lvm2 /boot (http://www.saout.de/misc/), this patch has been adopted into
major distributions.
>very good idea". If I recall correctly, this had something to do with
>the fact that "/boot" had to be located on a linear, contiguous volume
>for bootloaders like lilo and grub to be able to read it. And that
this is correct, the lv for /boot is to be linear and contiguus, it is
user responsability to ensure this.
L.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-07 19:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-05 16:46 [linux-lvm] Boot Mgr support for '/boot' on LVM2 volumes ? John Smith
2006-03-07 19:06 ` Luca Berra [this message]
2006-03-07 21:21 ` John Smith
2006-03-08 20:43 ` Luca Berra
2006-03-25 17:31 ` [linux-lvm] " Claus Färber
2006-03-30 21:59 ` Alasdair G Kergon
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