Scott Rohling wrote:
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.
There's no logical reason that the initrd can't be configured to find
stuff in LVM volumes (that happens), the part that requires /boot be a
real disk is whatever loads the kernel and initial ramdisk.
On intellish system, that limiting factor is typically GRUB or LILO.
If you have some other means of loading the two files into RAM, then
they can be loaded from separate storage - anything the hardware can
boot from, including raw DASD, but the maintenance of that is yours, not
your supplier's.
There is, of course, no need to have /boot mounted except at boot time,
and with modest care it could be shared, and that would give the
illusion of "everything in LVM."
I, you could have everything in LVM, but run some script to regenerate a
separate boot volume on request. The fact you can't boot directly from
LVM doesn't prevent your keeping everything in LVM, and cloning bits as
needed.
If you explore the scripts for the kernel, likely you will find a way to
dlone automatically by replacing/supplementing existing scripts.
rpm -q --scripts kernel | (less || more)
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