From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [10.36.4.218] (vpn1-4-218.ams2.redhat.com [10.36.4.218]) by int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id t3H8FOMJ012919 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 2015 04:15:25 -0400 Message-ID: <5530C11B.8040401@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 10:15:23 +0200 From: Zdenek Kabelac MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <441219761.721822832.1429205868173.JavaMail.root@zimbra39-e7.priv.proxad.net> In-Reply-To: <441219761.721822832.1429205868173.JavaMail.root@zimbra39-e7.priv.proxad.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Booting through LVM. Possible ? 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: linux-lvm@redhat.com 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