Re: [linux-lvm] Booting through LVM. Possible ?

[Georges Giralt <georges.giralt@free.fr>]

Thank you Zdenek. You confirm what I thought.
As this is my machine, it is not for experimenting. ;-)
So I'll make an EXT4 formated /boot primary partition and use everything 
else for LVM .....

Le 17/04/2015 10:15, Zdenek Kabelac a �crit :
> 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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