On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, Ed Greshko wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > >> GRUB has support for LVM and RAID since version 1.95. Multiple > >> volume groups don't work with GRUB 1.95 however. This bug has > >> been fixed in CVS, so if you have multiple volume groups you > >> should get the latest version from CVS. > > > > ok, i stand corrected. i did a quick google on that before i > > posted, and the first few (recent) hits seemed adamant that grub > > didn't yet have support for LVM. my bad. sorry. > > Actually, I sort of had second thoughts about what I wrote after I wrote it. > I believe that 1.95 is the pre-release of the grub2 project. The > version of grub supplied with F7 is 0.9X (forgot what the X is) and > looking at the changelogs there is no mention of support being added > for LVM. on my current "yum update"d f8t3 system, i have: $ rpm -q grub grub-0.97-19 $ i had no idea there even *was* a grub2 project. and, like you, i did a quick check of the grub changelog and didn't see anything regarding LVM so, for now, i'm going to assume grub (v1) doesn't handle /boot being a separate logical volume until i hear differently. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ========================================================================
