From: Luca Berra <bluca@comedia.it>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Boot Mgr support for '/boot' on LVM2 volumes ?
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 21:43:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060308204302.GA25789@percy.comedia.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6dcf0dbc0603071321x5fdaac9dr711212e600c8b8dc@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 10:21:49PM +0100, John Smith wrote:
>On 3/7/06, Luca Berra <bluca@comedia.it> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>Cool, I didnt know that.
>
>>
>> this is correct, the lv for /boot is to be linear and contiguus, it is
>> user responsability to ensure this.
>>
>UUhhmm...Ok, now im confused. If 'the user' still has to make sure
>that /boot is linear and contiguous, then :
>1.) Exactly, what, does the patch *do* then ?
it allows lilo to query device mapper and map a dm device to physical
sectors on the disk.
>2.) How does 'the user' (me, in this case) ensure this ?
>
make /boot a separate logical volume than /
do not extend it.
L.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-08 20:43 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
2006-03-07 21:21 ` John Smith
2006-03-08 20:43 ` Luca Berra [this message]
2006-03-25 17:31 ` [linux-lvm] " Claus Färber
2006-03-30 21:59 ` Alasdair G Kergon
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