[Nottingham] booting into RAID + LVM

[Andy Smith]

Hi Martin,

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 08:00:57PM +0100, Martin wrote:
> However, I've tried to have "/" as a volume on LVM on a RAID partition
> and there were various complaints about "/" couldn't be found...
> 
> Having "/" on it's own RAID partition and then everything else on LVM on
> top of RAID works fine.
> 
> ... So is this just a quirk of the Mandriva 2008.1 installer or am I
> chasing a non-starter for including "/" or even "/boot" in the LVM?

I've never used Mandriva but having / on LVM is usually accomplished
by building an initrd that supports LVM.

My laptop has / on LVM on dm-crypt, and I was even able to set it up
from the installer (Ubuntu Hardy).

grub can't boot from LVM so you can't put /boot on LVM yet.  There
may be some experimental version of it that can of course.

Cheers,
Andy

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