this is perhaps the wrong mailing list but is this the case with software raid as well? although, i believe the software raid must be raid level 1. On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 12:50, Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh) wrote: > Le 21.02.2005 21:37:54, rich turner a Ãcrit : > > if i have root(/) on a logical volume, is it required that i have > > /boot > > on a separate filesystem? does /boot have to be a partition? > > > > the boot loaders i need to support are lilo and grub. do the answers > > to > > the above question vary if i use lilo or grub? > > > both lilo and grub can boot the root filesystem as a logical volume. > > but grub cannot boot /boot from a logical volume. > With lilo it can either be a separate lv, a partition, a disk, what you > what. With grub it should be outside of the logical volume manager > (IIRC, there is a patch for grub to use /boot on a LV but I've never > found/tried it) > > > > > > thanks for the help > > Regards > > Jean-Luc > > ______________________________________________________________________ > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/