On 06/07/10 16:57, Bob Proulx wrote:
Kent West wrote:partition and set mount points, the installer continues, but then won't install grub or lilo.I always create a separate /boot partition because I also configure LVM and grub doesn't know how to boot off of lvm. Therefore a separate /boot (on a software raid /dev/md0 logical partition) enables grub to boot. (I am talking grub from Lenny stable and before. I don't know if grub2 in Squeeze and later adds this capability.) I still thinking having a separate /dev/md0 for /boot makes a lot of sense.
I have just (about 10 days ago) set up just such a configuration. I made my boot partition and used extlinux instead of grub or lilo.
This was a result of a thread on this list about grub v lilo and someone mentioned extlinux and I decided to give it a go. REALLY easy to set up once I had installed the debian extlinux package (and removed grub pc). It helps with kernel upgrades if you adjust /etc/kernel-img.conf to set link_in_boot = yes (as this gives symlinks vmlinuz and initrd.img in the /boot directory as opposed to the root directory - which makes it easier for the extlinux.conf file to have its default kernel as /vmlinuz)
(according to the syslinux/extlinux wiki you install it on the raid partition - but you then install an MBR into each original device's boot sector separately )
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