[linux-lvm] /boot on lvm?
Dan Merillat
dmerillat at sequiam.com
Mon May 17 05:13:50 UTC 2004
On Sun, 16 May 2004, Michael wrote:
>
> >I run everything on LVM except for /boot, primarily because I use GRUB
> >as a bootloader and it doesn't understand LVM volumes. As long as your
> >bootloader understands LVM volumes there should be no problem with it.
> >
> >
> I use Lilo. Does Lilo understand LVM volumes?
Yes, but to put / on LVM you need to use initrd. You also probably want
to force the minor number of <VG>/root to something fixed, since the
kernel isn't mounting by name at that point.
I built an initrd with busybox, LVM, megaraid and bash. Great for
diagnosing problems.
(Recent LILO has a bug with device-mapper. Either downgrade or upgrade
to the latest, or follow the debian bugtracking on it)
--Dan
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