On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 09:37:29AM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > On Sep 06, 2001 16:42 +0200, svetljo wrote: > > it probably will hold the kernel also > > and as far i know there is no bootloader which can access logical volume > > am i wrong > > Yes, you are wrong. LILO+patch can get a kernel from a logical volume. > Now that Linus has accepted my patch to fix LV_USER_BMAP from causing > an oops I will submit the patch to the LILO maintainer. It can also be > found in the archives for this mailing list (have posted several times). Congratulations that the patch is in :-) > > > dobos_s@IBCnet.hu wrote: > > >My kernel has no modules. > > >Why should I create an ext2 partition for holding an initrd which is not > > >doing any essential things except vgscan and vgchange -ay ? > > You don't need vgscan at boot time unless the disks have moved around. > You DO need "vgchange -a y" in order to load the LVM data into the kernel. > If you are running EVMS you don't need that. But you need EVMS tools which are not available fo far :-( > I think this is also on the > TODO list for the next LVM version. Yes, for one of the next versions ;-) > > Cheers, Andreas > -- > Andreas Dilger \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto, > \ would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?" > http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ -- Dogbert > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. Senior Consultant/Developer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
