Re: LVM2 and pvcreate

[Marcin Owsiany <porridge@debian.org>]

On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 10:34:16AM -0400, Ward Vandewege wrote:
> 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

Good to hear that. Now we just need to wait until the package loses the
EXPERIMENTAL disclaimer from its description :-)

Marcin
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