[linux-lvm] bootloader questions

Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh) jean-luc.coulon at wanadoo.fr
Tue Feb 22 12:06:40 UTC 2005


Le 21.02.2005 22:22:47, rich turner a écrit :
> this is perhaps the wrong mailing list but is this the case with
> software raid as well? although, i believe the software raid must be
> raid level 1.

I've a software raid1 on 2 SATA drives.
I've LVM over the RAID

Software raid can be about anything

I've setup 2 md devices:
/dev/md0 with /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1 for /boot (non lvm)
/dev/md1 with /dev/sda2 and /dev/sdb2 for lvm

The /boot partition is xfs and 100Mbytes
I've setup everything in lvm, even the swap and the root partition.

Jean-Luc
> 
> On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 12:50, Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh) wrote:
> > Le 21.02.2005 21:37:54, rich turner a écrit :
> > > if i have root(/) on a logical volume, is it required that i have
> > > /boot
> > > on a separate filesystem? does /boot have to be a partition?
> > >
> > > the boot loaders i need to support are lilo and grub. do the
> answers
> > > to
> > > the above question vary if i use lilo or grub?
> >
> >
> > both lilo and grub can boot the root filesystem as a logical volume.
> >
> > but grub cannot boot /boot from a logical volume.
> > With lilo it can either be a separate lv, a partition, a disk, what
> you
> > what. With grub it should be outside of the logical volume manager
> > (IIRC, there is a patch for grub to use /boot on a LV but I've never
> 
> > found/tried it)
> >
> >
> > >
> > > thanks for the help
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Jean-Luc
> >
> >  
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