Re: Installing Debian with Raid and LVM , help
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 07:43:59PM -0300, Eduardo wrote:
> On 7/17/06, hendrik@topoi.pooq.com <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com> wrote:
> >On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 03:03:09PM -0400, S Scharf wrote:
> >>
> >> My recollection is that you cannot have the /boot directory
> >> on a Logical Volume. I created two RAID partitions, one
> >> for the /boot directory and one for the LVM for everything
> >> else.
> >
> >My experience is that , using LILO, you can't have the files LILO needs
> >at boot time on an LVM on a RAID. I don't know whether it's RAID or LVM
> >or both that cause the problem. My /usr is an LVM on a RAID. But lilo
> >seems to need some files on /usr at boot time. I presume it can't find
> >their block addresses when I run
> > lilo -v
> >and therefore cannot set up to boot.
> >
>
> I run another server with /boot under LVM, I think that RAID isnt
> supported, donno...
It probably is RAID that lilo doesn't support.
>
> >If I knew what these files were, I could try putting them on /boot
> >and symbolically linking to them. Or is my whole analysis completely
> >wrong? /boot is on a reiserfs. Could that be the problem instead?
>
> There's no problem to use reiserfs on /boot
Good.
>
> >
> >grub boots OK. The 32-bit grup even boots the 64-bit alternate boot
> >partition OK. (i've got an AMD64) But I'd like to use lilo to set
> >up a boot floppy -- just in case.
Now if I only knew what files lilo is trying to find on /usr ...
-- hendrik
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