Re: Software RAID, LVM, and LILO on amd64 sarge
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 04:20:59PM -0600, Thomas F. O'Connell wrote:
> After discovering that the amd64 Debian Installer netinst images have
> been broken recently, I retreated to sarge.
>
> At first glance, I was having pretty good luck, but I ran into a snag
> during boot loader installation.
>
> During partitioning, I set up both software RAID1 and LVM. After
> partitioning, I tried to install LILO in the MBR on /dev/md0, but it
> didn't work. I tried advanced mode and tried /dev/mapper/vg-root as
> an installation target, but that was invalid, as well.
>
> I've seen posts suggesting that this ought to work without a non-LVM /
> boot partition, so I'm wondering whether this is an issue that's
> peculiar to sarge on amd64?
If you setup your system like this (quite doable with sarge installer
last I tried):
/dev/sda1 /dev/md0 /boot (128M or so)
/dev/sdb1 /dev/md0 /boot (128M or so)
/dev/sda2 /dev/md1 / (Maybe 10G or whatever makes sense to you)
/dev/sdb2 /dev/md1 / (Maybe 10G or whatever makes sense to you)
/dev/sda3 /dev/md2 LVM
/dev/sdb3 /dev/md2 LVM
swap, /home, etc all as volumes inside lvm.
Then install grub to /dev/sda and /dev/sdb (The MBR of each physical
disk, being the _only_ MBR there is).
/ and /boot could be combined if you want. Most modern systems have no
need for a seperate /boot.
And for your own sanity, pretend lilo doesn't exist anymore.
Len Sorensen
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