On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Mauriat Miranda wrote:
On 4/24/06, Matthew Saltzman <mjs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
To add, a /boot partition is not required. Linux can boot from either
a primary partition or a logical partition.
Hmm. I didn't know GRUB could boot from a logical partition.
Actually the last I recall both grub and lilo could do this for quite
some time now. I think I've been doing it since RH9(?). I would always
keep an unused /boot primary partition, but I never used it. Since my
last hard drive installation, I've completely eliminated the /boot
partition.
But grub can't boot from an LVM logical volume. I (and the FC5 installer)
generally put everything possible in an LVM except for a small /boot
partition (though I have more separate partitions in the LVM than the
installer's default). That way, I can resize filesystems easily later on.
I do not know LVM that well. If I had (1) NTFS for windows, (2) /boot,
(3) swap and (4) LVM ... then can these all be primary partitions?
Yes, but you have no additional possibilities. But swap can live inside
an LVM. You might also want a FAT32 partition for file transfer between
Win and Linux. Some machines come with a diagnostics or restore parition
that is primary also.
-Mauriat
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
