[LUNI] Setting up / on an LVM

Jay Strauss me at heyjay.com
Wed Feb 9 10:07:51 CST 2005


sten wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 09:29 -0600, Jay Strauss wrote:
> 
> 
>>Is it unwise to setup a box where my /boot is on mirror, and the rest of 
>>my system is on a logical Volume Group sitting on a different mirror?
>>
>>I've been googling, seems like there are mixed messages out there.  My 
>>main concern being will I be able to boot from a rescue disk if my 
>>system sits on a LVG.
> 
> 
> You'll be stuck using LILO, as GRUB doesn't boot off LV or MD devices,
> or at least I don't think it would the last time I looked.

It does now, I have a machine that's been doing it for about a year. 
I've just never built a LVG

Thanks
Jay


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