Re: Installing Debian with Raid and LVM , help
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...
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
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.
-- hendrik
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