On 01/16/2012 07:26 PM, Jonathan Vomacka wrote: > It is to my understanding that the /boot partition should never be > placed on LVM and should be a physical partition on the hard drives > (or on top of a RAID array). Is this an accurate statement? Not necessarily "never" but not if your boot loader is GRUB 0.95. /boot should be on a regular partition or an MD RAID1 partition on storage that is available to the BIOS (single drive or RAID volume on a controller with a boot ROM).