Bug#267677: [RC1] Success: i386, root on LVM, in spite of complaint from d-i

[Ming Hua <minghua@rice.edu>]

Package: debian-installer
Severity: normal

Hi,

Today I've finished an installation on i386 with root on LVM, using RC1
businesscard CD.  I had only one IDE hard drive, and made two partitions
-- /dev/hda1 as /boot, and /dev/hda2 as the LVM volume group.  The whole
partition process and LVM configuration is done in partman, and goes
very smoothly.  I booted with linux26 so the kernel I got in the end is
2.6.7, which works quite well in my limited testing.

The only problem I see is that after my LVM configuration, there is an
dialog warning that LVM won't work with /boot or / on LVM.  I proceeded
anyway and installed GRUB on mbr, which boots just fine.  Am I just
lucky to get this work, or d-i already supports root on LVM (at least
for 2.6 kernel)?  If yes, this warning dialog should be changed.  (I am
also curious about /boot on LVM, is that possible with the current
kernel Debian ships?)

Thanks for the wonderful work,
Ming
2004.08.23

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