On Mar 2, 2006, at 1:16 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote:
i was under the impression that GRUB doesn't know how to boot from a logical volume, and so the configuration you describe won't work without a bit of tweaking, like so:
two SW RAID 1 sets: md0: 100MB, format as ext3, /boot md1: the remaining space, mark as LVM
VolGroup00: LV0 = 1GB swap LV1 = 1GB /var LV2 = 9.2GB / LV3 = some more space for whatever you need
That's a good point. I don't know if grub will boot from it or not. I haven't tried that on my Linux systems yet, but it is the way I do things with my other unix boxes.
also, does anyone know if RHEL4 has fixed the problem of GRUB only being installed on the first drive of a SW RAID set? refer to this doc for more discussion:
http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2003-July/ 008898.html
I remember that thread, but I don't know if there was any resolution.
well, from Mace's post of a few minutes ago, it looks like the problem still exists (unless he's installing an old version of CentOS).
-steve
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