Saifi Khan wrote: > Hi all: > > Here is a query regarding /boot > > Recently, saw a discussion on IRC, where folks talked about > > /boot being required if one is using LVM2 > > /boot being optional, if one is using > ext2/3 or reiser for the root partition. > > Any thoughts or experiences with tweaking /boot ? > > > thanks > Saifi. > Hi Saifi,
The bootloader and kernel images need to be on a physical partition (which will be marked as boot/active partition in the partition table). Till the kernel loads, the LVM will not come into picture to interpret the volumes. Of course, the name of the partition can be anything (not necessarily /boot). Namita
