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



Ming Hua wrote:
> 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?)

I suspect the only (remaining?) problem with LVM is putting /boot on
lvm, which probably still does not work with grub. Apparently the initrd
problems are fixed, so we should indeed change that test to only
complain if /boot is on LVM (or root, if there is no separate /boot
partition). Martin, does this seem right to you?

-- 
see shy jo

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