Experiencing the Grub Error 17

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Ed Greshko wrote:

> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> >
> >> Paul Smith wrote:
> >>
> >>> I am trying to boot in the F7 partition, which is in /dev/sdc2 and
> >>> /dev/sdc3 (it is lvm). What precisely should I do in order to be
> >>> successful with booting in it?
> >> I'm not sure exactly what you mean,
> >> but can one boot from an LVM partition?
> >
> > last time i looked, grub cannot boot from an LVM logical volume.
> > has this changed at all recently?
>
> GRUB has support for LVM and RAID since version 1.95. Multiple
> volume groups don't work with GRUB 1.95 however. This bug has been
> fixed in CVS, so if you have multiple volume groups you should get
> the latest version from CVS.

ok, i stand corrected.  i did a quick google on that before i posted,
and the first few (recent) hits seemed adamant that grub didn't yet
have support for LVM.  my bad.  sorry.

rday
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