Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
sam wrote:
hi...
trying to install fedora livecd on a dell optiplex 320. after researching
via google, i'm now at a section where i'm dealing with lilo, as opposed to
grub. the arcticles i've seen have indicated that grub's lvm causes issues
when installing.
LVM is not part of Grub. Neither LILO of Grub understand LVM
volumes, but the Kernel does. If you have /boot on a LVM volume, it
can give you problems. This is not a problem if you give /boot its
own partition, and do not make it part of an LVM volume, or do not
use LVM at all.
grub supports filesystems it understands. If it doesn't understand Linux
LVMs (as I think is the case) then it can't boot from one.
otoh LILO stores a list of blocks to use, and uses the BIOS to read
those blocks. This means that it doesn't care about the filesystem at all.
It also means one has to run the lilo command whenever any of the
kernel, initrd or menu changes, so it can rebuild the list of blocks.
Also, lilo has the ability to boot something else just once: if I want
to close down Linux in the middle of the night, boot windows and do
something then shutdown & reboot Linux, LILO makes it easy.
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Cheers
John
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