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 i4VL6M007439 for ; Mon, 31 May 2004 17:06:22 -0400 Received: from percy.comedia.it (percy.comedia.it [212.97.59.71]) by mx3.redhat.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i4VL6FXn017041 for ; Mon, 31 May 2004 17:06:15 -0400 Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 23:06:14 +0200 From: Luca Berra Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] /boot on lvm? Message-ID: <20040531210613.GI14185@percy.comedia.it> References: <40A72846.5050801@mlug.missouri.edu> <20040516084236.GB8872@percy.comedia.it> <40A73771.2030604@osp.nl> <20040526153118.GA31460@mail1.smilehouse.com> <20040526205315.GA24516@percy.comedia.it> <20040531110327.GB14599@mail1.smilehouse.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040531110327.GB14599@mail1.smilehouse.com> 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" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: LVM general discussion and development On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 02:03:27PM +0300, Harri Haataja wrote: >If there was something I set out to say in that message, maybe it was: >Would there be a way to arrange kernel and initrd into a position where >the bootloader (including especially grub) can find it without using a >specific partition for it? Then, for example, you could raid1 two whole >disks, mark the md device as a pv and install a system on volumes there. i don't grub much, my personal belief is that linux has too many hw/filesystem combinations for it to work perfectly. what you say could be done if not for a minor glitch, i don't remember if this has been changed with lvm2. 'there is no room inside the VGDA to store a boot sector' L. -- Luca Berra -- bluca@comedia.it Communication Media & Services S.r.l. /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN X AGAINST HTML MAIL / \