[linux-lvm] LVM, lilo and MBR?
Urs Thuermann
urs at isnogud.escape.de
Tue Mar 27 09:34:08 UTC 2001
I think this was asked on this list before but I couldn't find it
anymore.
I would like to make my 3 SCSI harddisk drives into PVs without
partitioning them, i.e.
pvcreate /dev/sda; pvcreate /dev/sdb; pvcreate /dev/sdc
But I need the MBR on /dev/sda to boot the system and I want to use
lilo. Thus, I have 2 questions:
1. Is the first sector of a PV volume use by LVM or can I pvcreate
/dev/sda and still use the MBR of /dev/sda to boot the system?
Where does the VGDA start and how large is it?
2. IIRC, someone had a patch for lilo to load the kernel and initrd
image from a LV. Where can I get it? And will it go into the
standard lilo package?
These questions should probably go into the FAQ.
urs
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