On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote: > At Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:48:04 -0300 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > Yes, the root file system has to be outside of the LVM -- the initrd > does not start LVM, so LVM volumes are not available for mounting at > that point. As Norberto pointed out, root file system can be inside the LVM. It's /boot that has to be outside. That said, my own unpleasant and unfortunate experience suggests that everything essential to boot/recover the system should be outside lvm since rescue mode is unable to mount lvm without manual intervention after booting.