Bios freaks

[Les Mikesell]

John Pierce wrote:
>>     I don't think he was being funny. I have been around a long time and
>> missed the point about moving /boot to the front of a disk. I have heard
>> a thousand words a week about LVM and it never made the point that it
>> moved /boot close to the near end of a hard drive. I HATE LVM.
>>
> I don't know about hating LVM.  When I use LVM, which is all the time,
> I always create a /boot partition outside of the LVM volumes.  I have
> created a /boot partition since the first time I put a 20GB drive in a
> machine whose bios would only recognize a 2GB limit.

I haven't tried putting /boot inside LVM, but I didn't think it would 
work because grub wouldn't be able to find it.  Has that changed?

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   Les Mikesell
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