From: Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com>
To: linux-lvm@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Booting through LVM. Possible ?
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 10:15:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5530C11B.8040401@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <441219761.721822832.1429205868173.JavaMail.root@zimbra39-e7.priv.proxad.net>
Dne 16.4.2015 v 19:37 georges.giralt@free.fr napsal(a):
> Hello !
> I've got this new laptop which has a traditional disk and an M.2 NGFF SSD disk. So for the first time I'll plan to use LVM on a laptop. (I constantly use LVM at work on bare metal or virtual systems).
> The disk of my laptop is 4K sector size, GPT partitioned with an EFI partition for some utilities and Windows boot, and the SSD can be partitioned.
> As I plan to install a very recent Ubuntu LTS release I wonder is I still need a plain partition for the /boot or if current Grub version can handle /boot out of an lvm lv ?
> I've seen a lot of negative answer so I ask "at the source" ;-)
> Thank you in advance for your answer.
I'd strongly recommend to use separate /boot partition.
Lvm2 does not support grub - although some distributions pretends so and in
some cases, like plain linear volume, it somehow works...
Zdenek
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2015-04-16 17:37 [linux-lvm] Booting through LVM. Possible ? georges.giralt
2015-04-17 8:15 ` Zdenek Kabelac [this message]
2015-04-17 15:37 ` Georges Giralt
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