Grub2, /boot, and lvm

Tom H tomh0665 at gmail.com
Tue Dec 8 12:45:50 UTC 2009


>>> From Suvayu Ali (in the "Getting rid of /boot" thread)
>>> Could you please point me to the documentation for this? I would
>>> really like to read up more and understand what limitations/advantages
>>> I might have as I have been waiting for this to be included since F10.

>> Sorry Suvayu. Just remembered that you had asked for this info.
>> This is from the Grub 2 wiki:
>> http://grub.enbug.org/LVMandRAID

> Thank you Tom, its much appreciated, but you forgot that you have
> already posted that. :)

You're welcome. By the end of this week I will have done four weeks'
worth of shifts in two weeks - and I cannot remember posting this
before (!). I hope that I am not making similar mistakes at work...


> I went through it, and was trying to find whether the grub in Fedora
> is capable of that.
> $ grub --version
> grub (GNU GRUB 0.97)
> Even in the F12 repos, I saw the grub version is 0.97. Whereas the
> link says Grub needs to be 1.95 or higher to boot from a /boot on an
> lvm. Does that mean Fedora is yet to include that capability?

The package is called grub2. :)

And the latest release 1.97xxx.




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