From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx3.redhat.com (mx3.redhat.com [172.16.48.32]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id k27J6n103827 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 14:06:49 -0500 Received: from percy.comedia.it (percy.comedia.it [212.97.59.71]) by mx3.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k27J6gSZ011502 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 14:06:42 -0500 Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 20:06:36 +0100 From: Luca Berra Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Boot Mgr support for '/boot' on LVM2 volumes ? Message-ID: <20060307190636.GA12504@percy.comedia.it> References: <6dcf0dbc0603050846k2b8bb546r1a3b6f30f541e473@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6dcf0dbc0603050846k2b8bb546r1a3b6f30f541e473@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@redhat.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. -- Luca Berra -- bluca@comedia.it Communication Media & Services S.r.l. /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN X AGAINST HTML MAIL / \