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From: Luca Berra <bluca@comedia.it>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Boot Mgr support for '/boot' on LVM2 volumes ?
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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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