Re: LVM on software RAID - LILO

[Dan Peachey <dan@illusionnetworks.com>]

On Friday 08 October 2004 13:28, Fabian Fagerholm wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 15:17, Eugeniy Meshcheryakov wrote:
> > I do not think that lilo can be booted from md device, try to use one
> > of the physical volumes of this device (or disk device). Does
> > lilo-installer display any disk devices (hda, sda...) in the menu?
>
> > GRUB probably cannot boot operating system from LV, lilo can.
>
> Has anyone tried the following workaround:
>
> /boot on RAID1 with N physical partitions
> /root, /usr, /var, etc. on LVM, with LVM on either RAID1 or RAID5?
>
> That would mean /root on RAID5 would be possible, by using a small
> portion of the disks as a RAID1 on which /boot is placed. And if I've
> understood things correctly, GRUB should be usable in this case.

Thanks for both replies. I will give them a try tonight and let you know.

Thanks, Dan