On 10/10/17 15:27, John Hodrien wrote: > On Tue, 10 Oct 2017, Pete Biggs wrote: > >> No, you can't do that. /boot is special and needs to be a separate >> partition. > > Needs is a bit strong, as grub2 does support LVM. It's not a supported > configuration for Redhat. > > I'm not a sure there's a lot to it beyond having the lvm module loaded in > grub, but I've honestly not tried. > Indeed, /boot does not need to be a separate partition. I have /boot within the root filesystem on my test boxes where I know I will need to install many / all kernels for testing / development purposes for the specific reason that I do not need to set a size for /boot and it can just consume whatever it needs from the rest of the filesystem.