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Ubuntu 5.10 ("Breezy") preview released

Posted Sep 9, 2005 14:04 UTC (Fri) by busterb (subscriber, #560)
In reply to: Ubuntu 5.10 ("Breezy") preview released by csamuel
Parent article: Ubuntu 5.10 ("Breezy") preview released

I always have to create a separate EXT2 /boot partition to run / on an LVM volume. GRUB/LILO seem to have trouble installing if I do not. Do they mean that a separate /boot partition is no longer required?

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Posted Sep 9, 2005 15:15 UTC (Fri) by syndicate (guest, #27535) [Link]

Nope, you still need /boot on a partition that's not LVM.

/boot on LVM with 5.04 Hoary works

Posted Sep 9, 2005 22:19 UTC (Fri) by csamuel (✭ supporter ✭, #2624) [Link]

My computer (and my laptop) would beg to differ there!

   
Disk /dev/sda: 73.4 GB, 73406611456 bytes   
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 8924 cylinders   
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes   
   
   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System   
/dev/sda1   *           1        8924    71681998+  8e  Linux LVM

The trick is that Grub doesn't appear to be able to handle booting from an LVM'd /boot, but LILO can. In fact the installer took care of that decision for me. On the one system I've built with a /boot outside of LVM the installer used Grub.

Even swap is on an LVM here. :-)

Chris

/boot on LVM with 5.04 Hoary works

Posted Sep 10, 2005 3:04 UTC (Sat) by busterb (subscriber, #560) [Link]

I have never had that work when using 3Ware raid controllers. I think that LILO's functioning is somewhat controller-specific, though I never really analyzed it much.

/boot on LVM with 5.04 Hoary works

Posted Sep 10, 2005 8:25 UTC (Sat) by csamuel (✭ supporter ✭, #2624) [Link]

The working config I listed is with an Adaptec I2O style card and a RAID-5
array.