On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 12:29:23PM +0100, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > > 2- LVM on / is possible but currently not supported (AFAIK, drakx > will not allow you to do so) ; there are things like > "vgcreate" to do AFAIK, etc
Right. I have (locally) done 90% of the changes to drakx to allow this. I got stuck in some yukky perl5 obfuscated (sorry, I don't like perl5) code that was causing the root device in the boot manager setup to have "/dev/dev/..." (an extra /dev prepended to it). I could not figure out what the perl contruct that was causing this was and gave up. I didn't really care to learn that much about perl5 to figure it out. I do have fully working (all of my systems are LVM root!) mkinitrd patches to allow mkinitrd to make LVM capable initrds. I boot all of my lvm-on-root systems with initrds made from my local mkinitrd script. I can contribute the patches to mandrakesoft if you are interested in incorporating them. I have not up until this point because my enhancement contributions here seem to just get ignored. But if somebody from mandrake says they are interested in incorporating lvm-on-root into Cooker's mkinitrd, I will be more than happy to generate and send the patches. b. -- Brian J. Murrell
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