Getting rid of /boot
suvayu ali
fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com
Sat Dec 5 03:05:27 UTC 2009
Hi Tom.
2009/12/4 Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com>:
>>> Why add the complexity?
>
>> Because you can only have a max of 15 partitions on a disk
>> without using LVM?
>
>> At work we have a system with a gazillion or so different
>> linux distros and had to set it up to dd copies of the /boot
>> partition back onto /boot so we can boot the linux that goes
>> with that /boot. If grub could boot from LVM, I wouldn't need
>> the separate /boot shared among all the different linuxen.
>
> I had understood the complexity to be the separate /boot not the use of lvm...
>
> grub 2 can boot from an lvm'd /boot.
>
Could you please point me to the documentation for this? I would
really like to read up more and understand what limitations/advantages
I might have as I have been waiting for this to be included since F10.
--
Suvayu
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