On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 02:53:17PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > However, even if you do use the command line to get around d-i > > limitations, its still not safe to have /boot on LVM (at least according > > to all the documentation I've seen). > > with lilo it's safe if the LV is created with the continuous flag, for > grub I'm not sure whether it has LVM support these days, I implemented > support for LVM1 ~5 years ago but it got lost (and I don't have the > patch anyore either)
Couldn't the /boot partitition still be moved? If so, that would break lilo. Even if lilo were re-run after each lvm operation, I doubt lilo would like /boot winding up above 2TiB. Grub, according to what I can google out, doesn't support LVM (e.g., <http://linux.msede.com/lvm_mlist/archive/2004/05/0047.html>) though it appears some people are working on a patch (<http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42433>). [I confess I'm not too familiar with LVM, so please forgive me if I'm mistaken... I'm trying to understand it through RTFM] > > > I believe the only way to use d-i on machines with only > 2TiB disks is > > to rebuild the kernel to enable EFI GPT. > > Or any other of the partition formats that work. E.g. all the SGI Altix > systems with >2TB volumes (which is probably all of them) use IRIX disk > labels. http://people.debian.org/~madduck/d-i/screenshots/057-part-table-type.png seems to say that's not an option with d-i. I don't remember if it was there or not, and bochs is proving far too slow to test with. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
