[linux-lvm] booting from an LV

[Joep Blom]

Francis SOUYRI wrote:

> If you need to boot from a logical partition you can use lilo.
>
> Best regards.
>
> Francis
>
> Joep Blom wrote:
>
>> Luca Berra wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 12:21:41PM +0200, Joep Blom wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have one question.
>>>> Is it possible with grub to use a logical volume as boot partition?
>>>> (e.g.:partition: /dev/VG01/lvol0.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> No.
>>>
>>> L.
>>>
>> Thanks
>> Joep
>>
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Francis,
Thanks. I've read that. But after 7 or 8 years using LILO with all the 
problems around it, I switched 2 years ago to grub and decided to stick 
to it. So my solution is to make a small (100 Mb) primary partition for 
grub and do the rest with LVM as I have discovered the ease and 
advantage of it after years of struggling with fdisk (DOS, W98, Linux) 
and with the ntfsprogs suite it's easy to create XP partitions in an LV 
for backups.
Joep