On Mar 2, 2006, at 1:16 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote:
>> i was under the impression that GRUB doesn't know how to boot from a
>> logical volume, and so the configuration you describe won't work
>> without a bit of tweaking, like so:
>>
>> two SW RAID 1 sets:
>> md0: 100MB, format as ext3, /boot
>> md1: the remaining space, mark as LVM
>>
>> VolGroup00:
>> LV0 = 1GB swap
>> LV1 = 1GB /var
>> LV2 = 9.2GB /
>> LV3 = some more space for whatever you need
>
> That's a good point. I don't know if grub will boot from it or not.
> I haven't tried that on my Linux systems yet, but it is the way I do
> things with my other unix boxes.
>
>> also, does anyone know if RHEL4 has fixed the problem of GRUB only
>> being installed on the first drive of a SW RAID set? refer to this
>> doc for more discussion:
>>
>> http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2003-July/
>> 008898.html
>
> I remember that thread, but I don't know if there was any resolution.
well, from Mace's post of a few minutes ago, it looks like the
problem still exists (unless he's installing an old version of CentOS).
-steve
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