From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx3.redhat.com (mx3.redhat.com [172.16.48.32]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j1LLLdK20251 for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 16:21:39 -0500 Received: from storix.com (mill-adnc_internal-206-71-178-18.adnc.com [206.71.178.18] (may be forged)) by mx3.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j1LLLYdM028552 for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 16:21:34 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.126] (65.106.88.139.ptr.us.xo.net [65.106.88.139]) by storix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B914158F2 for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 12:54:49 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] bootloader questions From: rich turner In-Reply-To: <1109019036l.14910l.1l@tangerine> References: <1109018274.4532.14.camel@rich> <1109019036l.14910l.1l@tangerine> Message-Id: <1109020966.4532.59.camel@rich> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 13:22:47 -0800 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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="iso-8859-1" To: LVM general discussion and development this is perhaps the wrong mailing list but is this the case with software raid as well? although, i believe the software raid must be raid level 1. On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 12:50, Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh) wrote: > Le 21.02.2005 21:37:54, rich turner a =EF=BF=BDcrit : > > if i have root(/) on a logical volume, is it required that i have > > /boot > > on a separate filesystem? does /boot have to be a partition? > >=20 > > the boot loaders i need to support are lilo and grub. do the answers > > to > > the above question vary if i use lilo or grub? >=20 >=20 > both lilo and grub can boot the root filesystem as a logical volume. >=20 > but grub cannot boot /boot from a logical volume. > With lilo it can either be a separate lv, a partition, a disk, what you = > what. With grub it should be outside of the logical volume manager =20 > (IIRC, there is a patch for grub to use /boot on a LV but I've never =20 > found/tried it) >=20 >=20 > >=20 > > thanks for the help >=20 > Regards >=20 > Jean-Luc >=20 > ______________________________________________________________________ > _______________________________________________ > 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/