From: "John Smith" <lbalbalba@gmail.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Boot Mgr support for '/boot' on LVM2 volumes ?
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 22:21:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6dcf0dbc0603071321x5fdaac9dr711212e600c8b8dc@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060307190636.GA12504@percy.comedia.it>
On 3/7/06, Luca Berra <bluca@comedia.it> wrote:
>
> Christophe Saout made some patches to lilo to be able to boot from a
> lvm2 /boot (http://www.saout.de/misc/), this patch has been adopted into
> major distributions.
>
Cool, I didnt know that.
>
> this is correct, the lv for /boot is to be linear and contiguus, it is
> user responsability to ensure this.
>
UUhhmm...Ok, now im confused. If 'the user' still has to make sure
that /boot is linear and contiguous, then :
1.) Exactly, what, does the patch *do* then ?
2.) How does 'the user' (me, in this case) ensure this ?
Sincerely,
John Smith.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-07 21:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-05 16:46 [linux-lvm] Boot Mgr support for '/boot' on LVM2 volumes ? John Smith
2006-03-07 19:06 ` Luca Berra
2006-03-07 21:21 ` John Smith [this message]
2006-03-08 20:43 ` Luca Berra
2006-03-25 17:31 ` [linux-lvm] " Claus Färber
2006-03-30 21:59 ` Alasdair G Kergon
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