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From: "Canek Peláez Valdés" <caneko@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] where did lvm installation guide go?
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 05:36:53
Message-Id: CADPrc83fEG0HgfNYn4KoLKh7xCQRNJ7dWAaKR-brDBCN7A7n6w@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] where did lvm installation guide go? by "J. Roeleveld"
1 On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 12:21 AM, J. Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.org> wrote:
2 > gottlieb@×××.edu wrote:
3 >>On Thu, Aug 29 2013, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
4 >>
5 >>> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 4:19 PM, <gottlieb@×××.edu> wrote:
6 >>>>
7 >>>> I have experience with LVM, but not systemd or dracut or initramfs
8 >>>>
9 >>>> * both grub and grub2 support lvm
10 >>>
11 >>> Does GRUB legacy handles /boot in LVM? I haven't tried that yet.
12 >>
13 >>That I don't know. I believe the LVM "companion manual" that I am
14 >>seeking and that I used for previous installs advised against /boot on
15 >>lvm (probably also /lib and others). Perhaps this was simply
16 >>reflecting
17 >>no initramfs. Hence any grub issue with /boot on lvm didn't arise.
18 >>
19 >>allan
20 >
21 > No.
22 >
23 > Grub legacy does not support LVM for the /boot.
24 > That's why I have it there.
25 >
26 > UEFI only understands FAT. Which means you need to have a boot partition
27 > outside of LVM for that.
28
29 Good to know, thanks. Another reason not to use LVM I guess.
30
31 Regards.
32 --
33 Canek Peláez Valdés
34 Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
35 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

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Re: [gentoo-user] where did lvm installation guide go? Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>