Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: > On 08/09/2007 10:04 PM, James Knott wrote: > >> Is /boot on it's own partition, outside of the RAID array? If you are >> using RAID or LVM, /boot has to have it's own partition. >> > Wrong. I think it used to be so (8.0), but I have an md root and home > similar to the OP with NO separate boot partition. I do think grub has > to be installed in the MBR though, as was suggested. > > I finally got around to trying this. During install, when I create a logical volume on RAID for /boot, I get the error message: 'You cannot use the mount point "/boot" for LVM.'
If I try without a separate /boot LVM, I get the error message: 'Warning: With your current setup, your OpenSUSE 10.2 installation will encounter problems when booting, because you have no "boot" partition and your "root" partition is an LVM logical volume. This does not work.' So it appears I'm correct. You need a boot partition outside of LVM & RAID, at least with LVM on RAID. When I create a separate RAID array for /boot, I get the error message: 'Warning: With your current setup, you OpenSUSE 10.2 installation might not be directly bootable, because your files below "/boot" are on a software RAID device. The boot loader setup sometimes fails in this configuration.' Then, if I click on "Accept", I go back to the "Installation Settings" screen, where under "Booting", I get the message: "Because of the partitioning, the bootloader cannot be installed properly." So, once again, with software RAID, with or without LVM, /boot cannot be on a RAID array. -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
