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
