suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I don't know about your other issues, but I'll try to answer the ones below. > > On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Alright, so I'll do without swap for now. Next thing the installer >> complains that I cannot put my root partition into LVM2. This works just >> fine with Grub2, and isn't Fedora supposed to be cutting edge? Anyway, >> so I try to create a primary /boot partition instead. > > Fedora uses a patched version of GRUB Legacy. It can read / partitions > on LVM but the /boot partition still needs to be ext* on disk. How come that Fedora sticks with GRUB Legacy? One of my reasons for wanting to try Fedora was to get quicker access to new features, so I'm really surprised to find that the first thing that I get in contact with is an outdated GRUB... >> There is 128 MB of free space. I tell the installer to use all the space >> that's available. It claims that there is not enough space left. >> > > In Fedora we use an application called preupgrade for distro upgrades. > During those upgrades the installer downloads the new kernel images to > /boot before the upgrade is performed. On previous versions there has > been problems where the /boot was not large enough and upgrades failed. > So from F12 the recommended /boot size is 500MB to avoid such issues. Ugh. So I have hundreds of free GBs in my LVM VGs, but I won't be able to install Fedora? Is there no way around this? Best, -Nikolaus -- »Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a Banana.« PGP fingerprint: 5B93 61F8 4EA2 E279 ABF6 02CF A9AD B7F8 AE4E 425C -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
