using a partition works fine. but i am trying to understand why i can't write my grub bootloader to a disk that is being used as a physical volume. is grub and lvm using the same part of the disk for its own use? On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 11:36 -0500, Alan Jurgensen wrote: > You may want to create a Linux LVM partition, and using that in lvm > (pvcreate /dev/hdb1)... > > > rich turner wrote: > > >i have a volume group built on a physical volume that is the > >disk /dev/hdb. when i write the grub bootloader to that disk, it appears > >that the bootloader overwrites part or all of the lvm data on that disk, > >essentially wiping out my volume group. does anyone know if that is > >normal or if lvm and grub indeed share the same place on the disk? > > > >_______________________________________________ > >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/
