On Sunday 08 July 2007 22:11, Timothy Murphy wrote: > 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. However the only detected the drive is the LVM one. LVM are refused for /boot The partition RAID is not detected. To resume can I install Fedora-7 on LVM without /boot (because refused on LVM) as I intend to create a stanza on /boot (on other disks with RAID-1) ? Thanks for your attention and any clue. Bye, Bruno > > > -- > 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
