On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 02:30:41PM +1000, John Clarke wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 02:15:18PM +1000, david wrote:
>
> > Next, how do I persuade the new partition to boot? Do I have to do some
> > magic with grub? If so, what? Do I cpio the old /boot onto the new,
> > non-LVM boot partition? or can I use /boot within the new LV?
> >
> > Everything I read says to put /boot into a non-lvm partition. Does
> > grub-install from a live CD give me the opportunity to spell out the
> > right parameters?
>
> I'm trying to so the same thing right now, and I've got *almost*
> everything working.
Well it's now up and running with LVM and RAID1. I've posted a complete
guide to converting a non-LVM system to LVM + RAID1 here:
http://kirriwa.net/john/doc/lvm+raid1.html
This includes everything you need to do to get GRUB to boot too :-)
I hope it's useful to someone, somewhere.
John
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