Yes - you'll need a real boot partition -- you can either use a small minidisk or partition the 1st mod27 with a small boot partition.
My current customer is running root under LVM - with RHEL5, but I assume Novell can be setup this way as well since it's a Linux thing and not a distro thing. Scott On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Lee Stewart <[email protected] > wrote: > I have to keep repeating to myself - the customer is always right.... > > We have "advised" a customer not to do this but... In the end we're > the consultants and they're the paying customer... > > They want a new Linux image - built on an LVM so the root (/ not /root) > filesystem can span 3 mod 27s... They insist that they want the space > available from any part of the filesystem... > > Will SLES10 SP2 install and boot off an LVM like that? Or do I need to > put /boot in a real partition? Or?? > > Thoughts? > > Lee > -- > > Lee Stewart, Senior SE > Sirius Computer Solutions > Phone: (303) 996-7122 > Email: [email protected] > Web: www.siriuscom.com > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
