From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 12:28:36 -0600 From: Heinz Mauelshagen Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM, lilo and MBR? Message-ID: <20010327122836.B12883@sistina.com> References: <200103271811.f2RIBS005020@webber.adilger.int> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200103271811.f2RIBS005020@webber.adilger.int>; from adilger@turbolinux.com on Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 11:11:28AM -0700 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 On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 11:11:28AM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote: > Urs Thuermann wrote: > > Patrick Caulfield writes: > > > 2. IIRC, someone had a patch for lilo to load the kernel and initrd > > > image from a LV. Where can I get it? And will it go into the > > > standard lilo package? > > > > Andreas will be along in a moment ! > > Yes, patch for LILO has already been sent to LVM mailing lists a > couple of times. I found a copy at: > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-lvm&m=98451699131728&w=4 > > I have not yet submitted it to the LILO maintainer, because if you try > to run it on older LVM kernel code (i.e. what's in the official 2.4.2 > kernel), it will immediately crash your system. The Sistina folks have > told me they will submit an LVM kernel patch with the fix... > Which is already history now. Linus has it since 10 days or something... Regards, Heinz -- The LVM guy -- > > > Don't run LILO on /dev/sda if it's a PV because it will destroy > > > it. You should partition the disk into /dev/sda1 (that way > > > the PV will start further in and leave space for LILO) > > > > Hm, I hoped I could get rid of the broken partitioning scheme of the > > PC and C/H/S addressing used in the partition table. > > But then again, your MBR has the same problems, so why worry? Even so, > you only need the partition table on the boot disk, so no big deal. > > > Are there objections to change LVM so that the VGDA is placed at some > > fixed offset (say 1 sector or 1 block (1K)) from the beginning of the > > PV? This is how many file systems also use block devices to avoid > > conflicts with MBR, boot sectors and so on. > > Yes, because it will break every LVM setup around. Too bad it wasn't > in the original design, but it is too late to change. > > Cgeers, Andreas > -- > Andreas Dilger \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto, > \ would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?" > http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ -- Dogbert > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. Senior Consultant/Developer Bartningstr. 12 64289 Darmstadt Germany Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 6151 7103 86 FAX 7103 96 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-