[LUNI] Setting up / on an LVM

[Trev Peterson]

That's no longer the case (at least with the grub included in Gentoo
2004.3).

	Trev

On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 10:02 -0600, 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. As long as
> your rescue disk can deal with LV and MD devices off the bat, you should
> be fine. I've had to build custom initrd images in some instances to get
> that going, YMMV.
> 
> -sten
> 
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