A question on installing - FC5 32bit and M$Win2000

[Mauriat Miranda]

On 4/24/06, Matthew Saltzman <mjs at ces.clemson.edu> wrote:
> >
> > To add, a /boot partition is not required. Linux can boot from either
> > a primary partition or a logical partition.
>
> Hmm.  I didn't know GRUB could boot from a logical partition.

Actually the last I recall both grub and lilo could do this for quite
some time now. I think I've been doing it since RH9(?). I would always
keep an unused /boot primary partition, but I never used it. Since my
last hard drive installation, I've completely eliminated the /boot
partition.

> But grub can't boot from an LVM logical volume.  I (and the FC5 installer)
> generally put everything possible in an LVM except for a small /boot
> partition (though I have more separate partitions in the LVM than the
> installer's default).  That way, I can resize filesystems easily later on.

I do not know LVM that well. If I had (1) NTFS for windows, (2) /boot,
(3) swap and (4) LVM ...  then can these all be primary partitions?

-Mauriat