Re: f9 Preupgrade stalled?

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 09:19 -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: f9 Preupgrade stalled?
> From: Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>
> To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora. 
> <fedora-list redhat com>
> Date: 11/17/2008 09:11 AM
> 
> >> Thanks for the link. I think I have also used Cheapbytes but it was a
> >> at least 5 years ago so I may have the name wrong. I think my problem is
> >> that /boot is not on its own partition and grub isn't quite up to that.
> >> If I could shrink the single partition on the drive, move it and create
> >> a new /boot partition, then move /boot data to the new partition, grub
> >> might then install Rawhide. But it's probably simpler to wait for the
> >> official release.
> >>
> > It is not necessary for boot to be a separate partition..
> 
> 
> It is necessary if you wish to use a LVM. Grub 0.9x cannot directly boot 
> into a LVM. Fedora will have to adopt Grub2 first.
> 
This I agree with, so I just don't use LVM.
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