[Workaround.org] [lenny-alpha] Please help proofread the installation chapter

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Sun Jun 21 00:22:09 CEST 2009


Pete Boyd wrote:
>> Marc Berthold schrieb:
>> Not sure but I think last time I tried the "lilo" boot loader was
>> installed. And I don't like that because it gives me no way to recover
>> upon a failed configuration or kernel installation. Do you know if LVM
>> works with "grub" natively?
> 
> As I understand it, in Debian Etch and Lenny (tho I'm less sure about
> Lenny), GRUB won't boot from LVM, lilo will, so lilo is installed instead.
> What I do is install / on its own non-LVM partition and the rest on LVM,
> in my case on RAID1, as I describe here:
> http://thegoldenear.org/toolbox/unices/server-setup-debian-etch.html#lvm
> 
> I've read that if you want / to be LVM then GRUB2 will boot from LVM. I've
> not tried this though.
> 
Trying to boot directly from LVM using grub can be quite nasty indeed, but using lilo isn't really an option imho (I have a very strong preference for grub)

a much better way to deal with this would be to create a 100mb /boot partition outside of the diskspace allocated to LVM and then assign the rest to the LVM VG

Disk0
/boot............100MB (ext 3)
/................rest of disk (LVM vg00)


This way you can boot the system from a standard partition and still have all the benefits of LVM.


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