On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 6:17 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg < Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg at imag.fr> wrote: > On 02/27/2014 08:03 PM, Kenny Noe wrote: > > Thanks to all the replies... Very interesting stuff... However I'm > still > > trying to understand how to have a hardware RAID 5 (4x 1TB disk) system > and > > load CentOS on it. I'm looking for the UEFI bios but don't understand > > this. I want to install LVM on top of the single RAID volume, then I can > > create several LVMs like the HowTos, Wikis and Blogs all say. I just > can't > > get over this first hurdle and get the OS to boot. > > > > any other thoughts? > > I think you still need to have /boot on a non-LVM partition. A small > 500MB partition is sufficient. > +1 /boot cannot be on LVM (since we're using Legacy GRUB) (If we had GRUB2, then /boot on LVM could be possibility [I've put /boot within LVM on a Debian install.]) > You might also need to disable "secure boot" or some such option in the > bios. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- ---~~.~~--- Mike // SilverTip257 //