[CentOS] strange partitioning problem

2012/4/25 Eero Volotinen <eero.volotinen at iki.fi>:
> 2012/4/25 Markku Kolkka <markku.kolkka at saunalahti.fi>:
>> 24.4.2012 23:52, Boris Epstein kirjoitti:
>>> Thanks! I am afraid that will still not address the issue of how I would
>>> partition the drive for the installation.
>>
>> Don't partition it at all, assign the whole drive as a LVM physical volume.
>
> Is it really possible to boot from 18TB lvm partition? with mbr? with grub?
>
> http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Deployment_Guide-en-US/s1-lvm-diskdruid-manual.html
>
> well. no?
>
> "The /boot/ partition cannot reside on an LVM volume because the GRUB
> boot loader cannot read it"

I think best solution is to slice raid into two volumes in raid
manager or install delicated boot disk inside the server, if possible?

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Eero