From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 14:09:05 -0800 From: Ralph Jennings Message-ID: <20010226140905.A523@oro.net> References: <005101c0a073$730d2b60$0f01a8c0@myplace.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from unseen@sover.net on Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 03:38:45PM -0500 Subject: [linux-lvm] Boot with LVM on RAID1 on entire disk Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com I would like to be able to RAID mirror my entire hard drive, and run LVM on top of that (/, /boot, /usr, swap, MBR). So that if 1 of them dies, I only have to take out the good one, put it in the hda rack, and reboot. First off, I need the patch to Lilo to allow /, and /boot to be LVM partitions. Can somebody please point me to this? Second, I need a way to tell pvcreate or lvcreate not to mess with the MBR. Some sort of paramater to one of them that I can use to tell it not to use the first 512 bytes (or 4K, or whatever it needs). Or alternatively, some way to create an LV which covers the MBR, which I can keep blank, by just not writting to it. I also saw mention of a patch for this in the list before, but to an old version of LVM. If this exists for LVM 0.9.1b5, and kernel 2.4.2 can somebody point me to this also? Thanks, Ralph.