Robert Heller wrote:
At Thu, 14 Oct 2010 09:53:52 -0700 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
On 10/14/10 6:53 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Ritika Garg wrote:
Can CentOS be installed on an extended partition? System has the
following
partitions: OEM(reserved)-78MB(primary) System-100MB(primary) C-55GB(primary) D-100GB(extended) Can I divide D into 2 parts:70GB and 30GB and install CentOS in the
70GB
logical partition?
Of course. Extended or primary is an old, old DOS separation, but once they exist, everything just treats it as another partition.
/boot still has to be on a primary, doesn't it?
No. The *only* thing that needs to be in any partitular place is the boot loader -- this is a BIOS thing: the BIOS wants the boot loader (or actually the first stage of it) in the MBR of the first disk. Both
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LVM VG. It can be a *mirrored* (RAID1) set. Trickyness: if your /boot raid set is on the first & second disk (eg /dev/sda and /dev/sdb or /dev/hda and /dev/hdb) and you want to be able to boot if the first
<snip> Ah, but what about hardware raid, say, a Dell PERC 7, with the two internal drives raided by that, *not* by software? I'm not sure I can see them as separate disks to grub-install.
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