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Re: GRUB + LVM + XFS?

To: Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: GRUB + LVM + XFS?
From: Austin Gonyou <austin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 07 Jan 2002 12:51:51 -0600
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Thanks. I saw a similar answer to a similar question on the LVM mailing
list. Since this list seems to have a few more users, I thought I'd ask
here too to see what the consensus was. Thanks much!

On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 12:39, Steve Lord wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 12:14, Austin Gonyou wrote:
> > Is it possible to boot a LVM XFS root with GRUB?
> 
> I think lvm root will require an initial ram disk to construct the
> volumes - configuration comes from user space right? Grub reads from 
> the filesystem directly, and I do not know if it can deal with anything
> other than a basic partition to read data from. You would have to have
> the boot partition be non-lvm I think.
> 
> Steve
> 
> > -- 
> > Austin Gonyou
> > Systems Architect, CCNA
> > Coremetrics, Inc.
> > Phone: 512-698-7250
> > email: austin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > 
> > "It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin
> it."
> > Latin Proverb
> -- 
> 
> Steve Lord                                      voice: +1-651-683-3511
> Principal Engineer, Filesystem Software         email: lord@xxxxxxx
-- 
Austin Gonyou
Systems Architect, CCNA
Coremetrics, Inc.
Phone: 512-698-7250
email: austin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

"It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it."
Latin Proverb

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