Alexander Skwar [alexanders.mailinglists+nospam@gmail.com] wrote: > Hi! > 2010/10/25 Malahal Naineni <[1]malahal@us.ibm.com> > > Alexander Skwar [[2]alexanders.mailinglists+nospam@gmail.com] wrote: > > Â ÂI also wanted to suggest this, butâ > > > > Â Âbenutzer@horst:~$ cat /proc/cmdline > > Â Âroot=/dev/xvda1 ro > > I got confused with boot and root! Thanks for correction. Usually boot > disk is mounted at /boot. Your boot disk could be same as root disk (in > this case there would not be anything mounted at /boot but just a > directory). > > Well, but even the location of the /boot directory/partition doesn't > necessarily tell, from where someone booted - suppose, you've got > a boot disk /dev/sda. On /dev/sda, there's grub. Grub's setup so, > that it boots a system/kernel, which is on /dev/sdb. The system > is "self contained" on /dev/sdb. > > In such a case, the system would've been booted from /dev/sda, > but there's no way to tell that, once the "/dev/sdb system" has > been started - or is there? Once loader's job is done, it is not needed and I don't think there is a way to find out your boot disk in all __situations__ as I said before. In fact, you can use a USB disk as your boot disk and remove it after boot. Thanks, Malahal. _______________________________________________ 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/
