From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [172.16.48.31]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k4OM8Sfu007104 for ; Wed, 24 May 2006 18:08:28 -0400 Received: from amsfep13-int.chello.nl (amsfep17-int.chello.nl [213.46.243.15]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k4OM8QcX016164 for ; Wed, 24 May 2006 18:08:27 -0400 Received: from laguna.nwhq.nl ([213.46.145.128]) by amsfep13-int.chello.nl (InterMail vM.6.01.04.04 201-2131-118-104-20050224) with ESMTP id <20060524220818.NWVF21819.amsfep13-int.chello.nl@laguna.nwhq.nl> for ; Thu, 25 May 2006 00:08:18 +0200 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (velsatis.nwhq.nl [192.168.100.33]) by laguna.nwhq.nl (8.13.6/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k4OM8H6k006036 for ; Thu, 25 May 2006 00:08:17 +0200 Message-ID: <4474D94B.7010504@neuroweave.nl> Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 00:08:11 +0200 From: Joep Blom MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] booting from an LV References: <4472E235.6020707@neuroweave.nl> <20060523105821.GA6491@percy.comedia.it> <4472EE4E.9050208@neuroweave.nl> <4473ED42.1060702@wanadoo.fr> <4474B6E8.9010106@neuroweave.nl> <4474D256.8080603@chaos.ao.net> In-Reply-To: <4474D256.8080603@chaos.ao.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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" To: LVM general discussion and development Harik A'ttar wrote: > Joep Blom wrote: > >> Francis, >> Thanks. I've read that. But after 7 or 8 years using LILO with all >> the problems around it, I switched 2 years ago to grub and decided to >> stick to it. So my solution is to make a small (100 Mb) primary >> partition for grub and do the rest with LVM as I have discovered the >> ease and advantage of it after years of struggling with fdisk (DOS, >> W98, Linux) and with the ntfsprogs suite it's easy to create XP >> partitions in an LV for backups. >> Joep > > > Even with LILO, it's easier to have a raw BIOS partition for /boot: > > software raid4/5/6, pvmove, raid1, &tc. There are a lot of bad hacks > in lilo to support some of those things in some configurations, but > nothing clean. The most reliable way to bring things up is to install > grub or lilo in /boot (on [hs]da1) and possibly mirror the boot sector > and the boot partition to the second drive. However, on a > failed-drive, most motherboards can't reboot anyway so you're talking > manual intervention in either case. With a block-level mirror, > hopefully just yanking the first drive lets you boot off #2, and of > course once you hit initrd and raidstart, it handles the failed disk > gracefully, right? :) > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ > Harik, I couldn't agree more. IMHO it's a bloody shame we still have to work with a misconcept of over 25 years to start any OS (I'm not familiar with the Mac but I presume it's equally oldfashioned). Joep