Installing in existing LVM Volume Group?

[David Abrahams]

Alan McKinnon <alan at linuxholdings.co.za> writes:

> On Monday 12 June 2006 23:48, Dick Davies wrote:
>> > Your mistrust of grub is misplaced :-)
>> > grub reads from and grub-install writes to /boot/grub/*. That
>> > will happen whether it's a separate partition or not.
>>
>> Yes, but does grub understand LVM logical volumes?
>> Support has been flaky at best in the past (and if you're using
>> rescue CDs etc, it's even less likely to work).
>
> That would be the third valid case for a separate /boot.
>
> I've never had the need to do it myself, but I have heard that
> booting off LVM volumes can be done, and requires serious voodoo in
> the initrd. Much easier to simply have what grub wants on a separate
> partition, right?

I did it in Breezy... eventually
(http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=99155).  I'm not sure if
the Dapper installer made this any easier.  It sure looked just as
confounding to me when I tried to go that route.

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Dave Abrahams
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