install grub on LVM

Rick Stevens rstevens at internap.com
Tue Sep 18 16:56:48 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 06:39 -0500, Fred Grant wrote:
> I want to install grub on hd1 boot partition which is LVM.  Grub doesn't
> seem to recognize it.

You can't do that.  Grub doesn't understand LVM (nor will any boot
loader).  Grub must be installed in the MBR or in the beginning of a
standard filesystem...not something layered on top of LVM.  LVM will
not be recognized until the kernel is running, and by the time that
happens, grub is long out of the picture.

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