Bruno Costacurta wrote: >> > The Fedora installation detects the LVM and the previously created >> > logical volume 'fedora7' but refuse to install boot on logical volume >> > and so will not proceed installation. >> > How can I proceed ? Can I install Fedora files on this logical volume, >> > and boot to it via current grub installed (on RAID-1 and which serves >> > current Debian) ? >> >> I don't think you can have /boot on an LVM. >> Certainly everyone seems to advise against it. >> >> I think the bootloader proper (the bit in the MBR or wherever) >> only has a very simple view of the partitioning, >> which would not include LVM, I imagine. >> >> If you actually have a /boot that works, >> why not just add a stanza for Fedora-7 to that? > > Correct. I intend to add a grub entry for Fedora-7, but so how can I > install Fedora-7 without any boot considerations and leave this to a later > manual procedure ? I always specify that I want to mount the existing /boot as /boot , but not format it. This leaves the existing kernels there. But maybe I have misunderstood the question. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
