Re: /boot as an ext3 partition?

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, Alexander Dalloz wrote:

Am Di, den 21.09.2004 schrieb Robert P. J. Day um 17:46:

   historically, i've always created a separate /boot partition as a
primary partition, even when i've formatted the rest of my hda drive
as an extended partition.

Me too :)

   given that i want to use LVM on this next install (FC3t2, actually,
although this is clearly not a test-related question), is this still
the standard approach?  what are the options for the /boot partition
that GRUB will understand?  logical partition?  logical volume within
LVM?

See:

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/sysadmin-guide/ch-lvm-intro.html

ah.  for the benefit of others:

"The physical volumes are combined into logical volume groups, with the exception of the /boot/ partition. The /boot/ partition can not be
^^^^^^^
on a logical volume group because the boot loader can not read it. If the root / partition is on a logical volume, create a separate /boot/ partition which is not a part of a volume group."

thanks.

rday