[linux-lvm] grub and lvm

rich turner rich at storix.com
Mon Jun 6 16:30:43 UTC 2005


an additional question, does lvm write anything into the mbr when a disk
is used as a physical volume, as opposed to a partition?

On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 09:13 -0700, rich turner wrote:
> i have a volume group built on a physical volume that is the
> disk /dev/hdb. when i write the grub bootloader to that disk, it appears
> that the bootloader overwrites part or all of the lvm data on that disk,
> essentially wiping out my volume group. does anyone know if that is
> normal or if lvm and grub indeed share the same place on the disk?
> 
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