Re: LVM2 and pvcreate
On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 03:26:09PM +0100, Marcin Owsiany wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 09:05:40AM -0400, GPLHost (thomas) wrote:
> > Take care that Linux can't boot on a LVM disk, so you will need to make
> > either a / or a /boot away from your LVM disk.
>
> Actually, Linux itself, with an initrd/initramfs can boot an LVM-based
> root filesystem just fine. It's just that GRUB will have problems with
> getting the kernel image from an LVM volume.
Actually, a SoC student (Jeroen Dekkers) has added what looks like full LVM
support to Grub2. See this thread:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2006-08/msg00024.html
Thanks,
Ward.
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